What would it take for women and girls to move through the world freely and without fear?
Reclaiming Space, a new podcast from Red Dot Foundation Global, explores a simple but important question: What would it take for women and girls to move through the world freely and without fear?
For our first season, we are bringing together 12 guests from around the world whose work is reimagining safety in public spaces. We will speak with technologists, activists, researchers, urban designers and organisations working to change laws, institutions, infrastructure, social norms and the way our cities are designed.
Each conversation is guided by the same set of practical questions:
Through these conversations, we hope to surface practical ideas, challenge assumptions and share approaches that can inspire action in other communities and cities.
Episodes will be published through Red Dot Foundation Global’s Substack and podcast channels.
Host
ElsaMarie D’Silva is the founder of Red Dot Foundation Global and creator of Safecity. An award-winning social entrepreneur, she is an experienced podcast host, writer and speaker whose work focuses on using data, technology and community engagement to prevent gender-based violence.
Host
Holly Kearl is the Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at RDFG as well as an author, researcher, and the founder of Stop Street Harassment.
Together, ElsaMarie and Holly bring more than two decades of experience working on public sexual harassment, women’s safety, data, advocacy and systems change. As practitioners themselves, they will go beyond asking what their guests are doing to explore what works, why it works and what it would take to replicate or scale it.
The podcast is also supported by the work of RDFG intern Sabrina Bergen.