Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Since then, she's been working with girls and women in Africa and in public health - which is especially important in her home country as Liberia continues to struggle with Ebola. 

"The virus has just really challenged the fabric of the peace in Liberia," Gbowee told us. Ebola has hit poor communities harder because they don't have public health systems. It's also hurt women more. "Most of the time you find women not able to deal with the fact that a relative is sick and they cannot engage or care for that relative. They are the ones who are really getting it because they are the caregivers." But women are also finding solutions. The same women's groups that organized during Liberia's civil war are responding to Ebola now, like improvising protection out of plastic bags when nothing else is available.

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner, in Studio 2 at WNYC.

(Alana Casanova-Burgess/WNYC)

EVENT: Leymah will be speaking at Seton Hall University tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m. The event is sold out, but you can stream it here.