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Activists Around the World: Trisha Shetty · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stepane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told your production of iHeart Radio. Okay, before we
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  Speaker 1: start this Activists around the World segment, I did want
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  Speaker 1: to ask, did you ever do Model You in? Have
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this? I don't think we've talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: I did something very similar. I don't know that it
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  Speaker 1: was exactly Model You In. But I went to school
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  Speaker 1: university for essentially I don't know, some kind of diplomacy.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to take a bunch of classes like that,
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  Speaker 1: and we did one. It was like a hundred person
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  Speaker 1: class and everybody had to represent a country, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a project that lasted half the semester. I think
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  Speaker 1: that class was tough. I think there was only two
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  Speaker 1: grades and that was one of them, and I represented Turkey, um,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to make a lot of I had
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  Speaker 1: to talk to a bunch of different countries and gotta
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  Speaker 1: make your deals and stuff, and it was very, very difficult.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think I did like the actual thing,
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  Speaker 1: but I did something similar to it. Okay, like I've
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  Speaker 1: never done it. I'm not cool enough, and I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand what it was. Yeah, this was just what
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  Speaker 1: the cool Kids Club. I was not a part of
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  Speaker 1: the cool Kids Club because you got selected by teachers,
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  Speaker 1: I think. And so the people who got it, there
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  Speaker 1: was only like thirteen people of our school, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: even five, I don't remember low number. And that was
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  Speaker 1: sent for a couple of days and did this thing,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know what's happening. What
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  Speaker 1: is happening? Um? And I think like it was a
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  Speaker 1: whole big deal. Yeah, it was a big deal. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the plot of like multiple kind of
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  Speaker 1: teenage romance. Really, yeah, you know what, maybe so so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't The only thing I have any clue as
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  Speaker 1: to what it was is based on Parks and rec
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  Speaker 1: and their episode about the model to you in. And
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  Speaker 1: I did, like my friend, one of my best friends
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  Speaker 1: at that point in time, did it actually like two
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  Speaker 1: of three of them were gone. I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: really sad. I don't wish it was excluded where all
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  Speaker 1: our friends went anyway, but they all went and did
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  Speaker 1: this thing and came back and they were telling me
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  Speaker 1: about it, and yeah, there was like we met this
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  Speaker 1: dude from this class, which, yeah, it is varying off
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  Speaker 1: in the whole way of what we're actually talking about
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  Speaker 1: but anyway, but in this conversation of like trying to
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  Speaker 1: negotiate and talk about peace treatise and conversations about negotiating
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  Speaker 1: for the future and what it looks like, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know much about it. So for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who I'm sure we have many a listeners who's been
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  Speaker 1: a part of this and no exactly what this is about,
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  Speaker 1: please let me know because I am still kind of
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  Speaker 1: interested because obviously when we talk about activists around the world,
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  Speaker 1: we talk a lot about people who are involved with
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  Speaker 1: different UN types of speeches and conferences and all of
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  Speaker 1: this UM and commissions and board members. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on in the u N. We know this, and
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  Speaker 1: we know there's a whole, like bigger scope of conversation
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  Speaker 1: of what's going around the world and who is actually
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  Speaker 1: doing what we thought the UN was supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: versus everything else. But that's the whole side conversation. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to hear from people about the other stuff,
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  Speaker 1: if you know a deeper like level than I, as
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  Speaker 1: the novice that couldn't be a part of this exclusive
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  Speaker 1: club that we are talking specifically about an activist who
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  Speaker 1: has been a part of the UN talking about activism
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  Speaker 1: and advocacy for gender equality. UM. And that person we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about is Tricia Shetty UM. And she was a
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  Speaker 1: part of the youth movement in that and she has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of if you look at her resume, her
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  Speaker 1: CV it has a lot of her advocacy work as
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  Speaker 1: well as her Actually I know it's not a tour,
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  Speaker 1: but going around speaking, I guess, and I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: her work and what is needed in her country in
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  Speaker 1: India as well as for everywhere. And yeah, she is
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  Speaker 1: a pro at this. If you have a chance, look
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  Speaker 1: up Tricia Shetty. UM, you will see her TED talk
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  Speaker 1: as well as her as her UN speech when she
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  Speaker 1: talks about advocating for victims of rape and abuse. So
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, but that yes, we're talking. We're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about any incidents specifically, but of course I just mentioned
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  Speaker 1: of it and her advocacy work, so be aware of that. UM. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And Shetty is a lawyer and activists, a speaker and
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  Speaker 1: advocate who has been working for gender equality all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. Shetty has shared her personal story publicly as
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  Speaker 1: she's been working to fight for equal rights and protections
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  Speaker 1: for the marginalized community around the world, demanding that the
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  Speaker 1: leaders in her country and all over take a step
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  Speaker 1: defending and protecting those who have been abused and continue
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  Speaker 1: to suffer without being heard. Right and Shetty has talked
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  Speaker 1: about her past experiences with being sexually abused as a
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  Speaker 1: child and the effects as experiences caused, including her PTSD
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  Speaker 1: due to that trauma. She talked about facing her abuser
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  Speaker 1: and even feeling guilt for being angry or from the
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  Speaker 1: trauma she suffered, and her TED talk titled Embrace your Scars,
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  Speaker 1: Be your Own Hero, she says, I did not have
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  Speaker 1: any option but to be strong. I had to be
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  Speaker 1: strong to survive and her resilience is something she will
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  Speaker 1: not apologize for and something that she has used not
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  Speaker 1: only to survive but to fight for others and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's done just that. Shetty was born and Mumbai, got
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  Speaker 1: her degree in political science and psychology at Jihnd College
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  Speaker 1: and went on to get her law degree in Mumbai University.
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  Speaker 1: She has been working to advocate for sexual abuse survivors
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  Speaker 1: and getting services to those who aren't able to advocate
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. She has spoken about India's laws in regards
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  Speaker 1: to married women and consent, which we know is still
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  Speaker 1: an issue here in the US too, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: forget that. And also about how she has been working
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  Speaker 1: with abused women in order to not only give them
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  Speaker 1: a chance at a different life, but being able to
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  Speaker 1: advocate for themselves in regards to rights within the marriage right.
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  Speaker 1: And if you listen to our ted talk, she goes
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  Speaker 1: into examples of what they've done and what she has
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  Speaker 1: been able to do for those who are trying to
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  Speaker 1: get help and to get people to listen about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that this type of marriage is harmful and dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Um In she had he started, she says, a movement
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  Speaker 1: that is youth led that seeks to end gender based
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  Speaker 1: discrimination and to help in the advancement of women's rights
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  Speaker 1: in India. Uh their mission on she says dot Ian quote.
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  Speaker 1: She says aims to end gender based discrimination and advance
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  Speaker 1: women's rights in India by engaging with the youth and
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  Speaker 1: activating them as agents of social change to achieve the
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  Speaker 1: U N Sustainable Development Goals, which she was a part
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  Speaker 1: of in creating. And something is still part of today
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  Speaker 1: because it's supposed to go on to talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about that minute, and they were to do
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  Speaker 1: so for several years now and have included different ways
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  Speaker 1: of implementing these changes, including providing access to digital literacy
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  Speaker 1: and providing a breakdown of rights and policies worldwide, providing
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  Speaker 1: educational seiminars to teach consent UH and about consent and
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  Speaker 1: a deeper understanding of gender based violence, and a curriculum
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  Speaker 1: to teach by standard intervention skills and tactics. And also
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  Speaker 1: has guidelines on how one can seek help if they
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  Speaker 1: need it UM and they've gone beyond just giving access
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  Speaker 1: to information, but I have been able to help in
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  Speaker 1: regards to physical well being as well, whether it's helping
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  Speaker 1: a survivor of abuse to access treatment physically or psychologically.
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  Speaker 1: UH to being advocates for those who need assistance in
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  Speaker 1: getting that help, as well as their initiative to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of taxes on sanitary napkins and period products within
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  Speaker 1: the country. UH. According to their site, a sanitary napkin
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  Speaker 1: can be taxed from four point five to fourteen point
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  Speaker 1: five percent, so pretty significant in India and with this
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  Speaker 1: type of taxing can make it hard to afford that
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  Speaker 1: type of product, she says, has used their platform to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this type of tax and how it continues
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  Speaker 1: to marginalize those with periods and then need to abolish
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  Speaker 1: this type of taxing altogether. And Sitty is currently still
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  Speaker 1: the CEO of she says, and with that she has
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  Speaker 1: continued to work all over the world. In Shetty was
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  Speaker 1: named as one of the Youth Leaders and the inaugural
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  Speaker 1: you In Youth Leaders for Sustainable Development Goals, which seeks
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  Speaker 1: to end gender inequality and injustice by UM. She was
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  Speaker 1: inducted to the Queen's Young Leader cohort in by the
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  Speaker 1: late Queen Elizabeth and in the same year was named
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  Speaker 1: Vice President of the Paris Peace Forum Steering Committee, which
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  Speaker 1: she would be president of the following year UM and
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  Speaker 1: that's a committee working with the French President to host
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  Speaker 1: the annual event to support international cooperation and global governance
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  Speaker 1: to ensure durable peace during the recent pandemic. Shetty was
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  Speaker 1: also a part of the Lance at Chatham House Commission
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  Speaker 1: as a Health Commissioner on Improving Population, Health and post COVID,
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  Speaker 1: which was an international effort to seek safeguards around the
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  Speaker 1: world and also looks to see how it can change
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  Speaker 1: for the future. Right, Yeah, I'm not sure exactly on
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  Speaker 1: what that is we were I was trying to look
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  Speaker 1: through it, but it looks like it's doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of research about trying to prevent it for future times,
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  Speaker 1: which is necessary. We know this, we know this. Um
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  Speaker 1: and Chatty has been also been a part of the
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  Speaker 1: High Level Advisory Commission that worked on the report of
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  Speaker 1: security issues globally. So yeah, she's on a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things right now. And not surprisingly, she's been named on
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  Speaker 1: many Who's Who list, including Forbes thirty Under thirty Most
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  Speaker 1: Powerful Warriors of Vogue. Indian Women of the Year was
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  Speaker 1: one of the twelve Obama Foundation scholars who would go
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  Speaker 1: on to a year long program in Columbia University, and
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  Speaker 1: it was with the inaugural program. I'm not gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if it still exists, but you know, uh
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  Speaker 1: so she was I believe the only Indian uh participant
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of that, so that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, she has been working since then to continue
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  Speaker 1: in these programs, in these conversations because obviously we are
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  Speaker 1: far far away from getting gender quality. Yeah yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: this work is amazing, yes, and my much needed and
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  Speaker 1: as always very inspiring. So I'm always happy to share
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  Speaker 1: these stories and listeners, UM, if you have anybody you
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  Speaker 1: think we should cover. UM, if you have any experience
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  Speaker 1: with the un model or otherwise, someone tell them about
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