Aruna Rao | Activist, feminist and co-founder of Gender At Work

“We need to centre care, care in the widest sense of the word, as we try to rebuild in this post COVID era.”

Aruna Rao is a feminist, an activist, and the co-founder of Gender At Work, an international network dedicated to building new cultures of equality and inclusion.

In a passionate and wide-ranging conversation that opens with Aruna’s rendition of the spiritual Wade in the Water, Kumi and Aruna explore hope, fear, Black Lives Matter, intersectionality and structural change. They ask whether we have been failed by the institutions that were set up to protect us – the police, social services, the UN, development charities and aid agencies – and whether it’s better to try to change them from within, or tear them down and start again?

This episode was recorded on Juneteenth 2021, a date that celebrates African American culture and the end of slavery – as well as the first Juneteenth to be recognised as a US federal holiday.

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Produced by the Green Economy Coalition, the world’s largest movement for a green and fair economy: https://greeneconomycoalition.org

G@W’s website:  https://genderatwork.org
Aruna’s podcast, “Feminists Rethinking Transformational Strategies”:  https://genderatworkpodcast.org

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