Nadya Okamoto
Nadya Okamoto grew up in Portland and currently attends Harvard College. She is the founder and executive director of PERIOD (Period.org), an organization she founded at the age of sixteen, which is now the largest youth-run NGO in women’s health, and one of the fastest growing ones here in the United States. She is also the cofounder and spokesperson of Next Fellows (NextFellows.org). In 2017, Nadya ran for office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While she did not win, her campaign team made historic waves in mobilizing young people on the ground and at polls.
All Books By Nadya Okamoto
Play Sample
Period Power
- By: Nadya Okamoto
- Narrator: Nadya Okamoto
- Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
-
PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed–and how to engage in youth activism.Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public.... Read more
Most Popular Audiobooks
More free audiobooks
La mejor inversion de un lider
¿Cuál es la mayor ganancia en el tiempo de un líder? Después de que los líderes hayan invertido en su propio crecimiento de liderazgo, ¿cuál es la mejor manera de lograr su misión y hacer crecer a sus organizaciones? ¡Desarrollar líderes! Cuantos más líderes tenga una organización y mejor preparados estén para liderar, más exitosa ...
Read Book
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A “skillful, literate” (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of ...
Read Book
A Woman’s Ayurvedic Herbal
Ancient herbal secrets for healing and wholeness
Designed specifically for women, this is an introduction to Ayurveda–one of the most ancient and holistic forms of medicine in human history. Developed in India over five thousand years ago, Ayurveda is a complete system for healing and rebalancing the body.
This fascinating book features an A-to-Z of herbs with their description, history, and ...
Read Book
Storming the Heavens
The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. This struggle involved pioneers like Bessie Coleman, who ...
Read Book
Codex
About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm’s most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to ...
Read Book
The Last Time She Saw Him
Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben was abducted from the room they shared. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she’s never found. But guilt and grief over Ben’s disappearance have left her fearful that whoever took her brother is going to come back. And then, on the ...
Read Book
The Sisters Cafe
New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s contemporary romance is a delightfully fresh take on modern love. Cathy Andrews has a choice: marry Mr. Safe-But-Boring, or take a chance on finding herself.
Cathy Andrews wants it all: a husband, a baby, and a little house in her charming small town of Cadillac, Texas. With all that she’s gone through in her past, she’s earned her happily ...
Read Book
Sleeping With the Devil
Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America’s collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a “harmony of interests” – the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively – what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and terrorist threats. Baer goes behind the ...
Read Book
Why Not You?
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Grammy-winning pop star Ciara and Super Bowl champion quarterback Russell Wilson comes a picture book to inspire young readers to see the value in themselves, be brave, and go after their biggest dreams! Why not you? Amazing you! You’re a winner! You’re so strong! You are perfect and important—you and all your gifts belong! We all have big dreams! ...
Read Book
School’s Out!
“The Dragon Detective Agency. Dirk Dilly speaking.”
Holly is desperate to be sleuthing with her partner-in-solving-crime, dragon Dirk Dilly, but instead she’s stuck at her exclusive boarding school for children of the rich and famous. She’s determined to escape, until she meets Callum, the son of the Prime Minister, who claims he was kidnapped by dragons a year ago and hasn’t been the ...
Read Book
