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Leonard Lopate Weekend: Writing for Money, Women Running for Office, Zootopia

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 17, 2017

Editor Manjula Martin, and authors Leslie Jamison and Alexander Chee, join us to discuss Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. Andrea Dew Steele, president and founder of Emerge America, and Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics, join us to discuss their programs to train women with little political experience in the art of running for office. Byron Howard and Rich Moore join us to discuss their Oscar-nominated, animated feature, “Zootopia.”

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