Women in Society
Program Titles
- Women connected with that
Jo Giese: Collection of profiles of 50 exceptional women who have found work they are uniquely suited to do and that they enjoy.
Giese includes the inspirational storys.
Giese says she was interested in including women of achievement.
“I wasn’t interested, necessarily, in big bucks, big fame [or] big time.
I was looking for women who had connected with that “spark” within themselves” in their careers.
Her experiences as a woman following a medical career and challenges she has faced in her personal life as a result, including depression and a difficult divorce.
Jo Giese is a radio journalist, author, teacher, and community activist.
As a special correspondent she was part of the Peabody award-winning team, public radio’s daily business show.
Her series “Breaking the Mold” ran for three years and was their longest running series. This series won the 2002 Exceptional Merit Media Award (EMMA) from the national Women’s Political Caucus for Exceptional Radio Story.
For her “superior portrayal of the changing roles of women,” Jo received a GRACIE from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and TV.
For This American Life with Ira Glass she contributed a half-hour documentary “Doctoring the Doctor.”
This is the intimate story of caring for her husband in the last year of life. “Jo Giese story, an intimate, personal story told with humor.”
Her writing has appeared in scores of national publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Ms., UTNE, LA Weekly, New Woman, European Travel and Life, and BARK.
She was a regular columnist for Buzz: The Talk of Los Angeles.
Her writing has been featured in ZinkZine magazine.
She authored A Woman’s Path and The Good Food Compendium.
Ford Motor Company, Smith College, and the Golden Door health spa.
She served on the board of PEN CENTER WEST.
She taught in the UCLA Extension Writing Program and at the Skirball Lifelong Learning Center.
She raised $750,000 for a highway landscaping project.
Books by Jo Giese