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Clever Girls

Former educators Allison Hendrick and Kimberlee Kelly discuss amazing and inspiring women, past and present, as well as pop culture and current events. Follow the links to our show on iTunes and Google Play, or you can find us on Spotify or podcast apps like Podcast Addict. 

Mar 26, 2018

It's the penultimate minisode of our International Women MiniSeries! Kimberlee and Allison discuss women from North America and their efforts to bring a female perspective to politics. Laura Starcher and the Petticoat Revolution turned around a small town in Oregon, while in the present Portia Simpson-Miller paved the...


Mar 19, 2018

This episode, Allison and Kimberlee discuss two women from Europe. Artemisia I of Caria joined Persian king Xerxes in his quest to invade Greece and proved to be a powerful military commander and strategist. In the present, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the second woman to climb fourteen eight-thousand feet mountains and...


Mar 16, 2018

In their fourth minisode of the continental International Women’s Miniseries, Kimberlee and Allison discuss women from Africa. Dahomey's Women Warriors were a force to be reckoned with for 3 centuries! Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu is changing lives at home and abroad with the 1st Fair Trade...


Mar 12, 2018

Continuing our continent by continent celebration of women around the world, Allison and Kimberlee discuss two women, past and present, from the continent of Australia. From the past, Fanny Cochrane Smith was the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language, and in the present Jessica Watson is an award winning sailor...


Mar 8, 2018

International Women’s Day needs more female inspiration from around the world! In their second mini of their continental miniseries, Kimberlee and Allison discuss the revolutionary work of current and historical women in South America: environmental activist and organizer Máxima Acuña and Reconquista rebel spy and...