Sonia Pressman Fuentes

Audio Links

• Forty-five-minute interview of Sonia by Susan Nilon on Sarasota radio station WSRQ on The Nilon Report, March 07, 2013.
• December 3, 2012, Interview of Sonia by Tyler Whitson, Sarasota reporter, on Sarasota community radio station WSLR with regard to her campaign to have Phyllis Schlafly deleted as a Groundbreaker for women’s rights on the Makers website,  http://makers.com, and from the documentary film to be released by Makers on Feb. 26, 2013. Makers is funded by PBS, AOL, and WETA. This interview was not broadcast and is available only on this website.
• Deborah Carney’s interview of Sonia about feminism and her memoir, October 8, 2012.
• Interview on radio station WWPR, AM 1490, in Bradenton, FL, on the “Meet the Author” segment of Red Robyn Productions (September 14, 2012).
• Fifteen-minute interview of Sonia on blog radio program Dresser After Dark (July 6, 2012).
• Five-minute interview of Sonia by America’s Radio News (with 300 affiliate radio stations across the US) concerning the campaign Sonia initiated to protest the National Woman’s Party/Sewall-Belmont House & Museum’s plan to give the Alice Award, named for legendary feminist, Alice Paul, whom Sonia knew, to Laura Bush on September 19, 2012.
• April 22, 2012, interview of Sonia on Children’s Health & Fitness website.
• Maternally Yours, one-hour panel discussion (with Sonia as one of two panelists) on Sarasota, FL, community radio station WSLR on April 17, 2012, on the employment rights of men and women under the law in connection with pregnancy and childbirth.
• Sonia was a panelist on China Radio International’s Today Show out of Beijing, March 9, 2012, discussing the fact that more than half of the births to American women under thirty occur outside marriage.
• February 2012, Women’s Information Network, fifteen-minute interview by Bonnie Ross-Parker. Interviewer’s voice fades in and out, but you can hear Sonia’s part fine. 
• Interview by Cyrus Webb on the Conversations Live Internet radio program, February 4, 2012.
• Interview by Phil Fink, host of Radio-J, January 18, 2012, part 1.
• Interview by Phil Fink, host of Radio-J, January 18, 2012, part 2.
• Interview by Lisa Bracken, host of Blog Talk Radio program, In-Depth Perception, Dec. 29, 2011.  The segment begins with a long commentary by the program’s host about Iran and Afghanistan, and then the interview starts.
• Interview of August 5, 2011, on Sarasota Community Radio Station WSLR of Philip Heylen, vice mayor for tourism and culture for Antwerp, Belgium. It was Heylen’s idea that Antwerp establish a museum dedicated to the Red Star Shipping Line, the line on which Sonia and her family came to the U.S. from Antwerp after fleeing Berlin, Germany. The museum, scheduled to open in the spring of 2013, will have a permanent exhibit about Sonia, her parents, and brother.
• Interview by Don McCauley on The Authors Show (August 7, 2010).
• Interview by Sonia M. Gallagher, an attorney and executive coach for lawyers, as part of her series, “Lawyers as Change Agents” on her Lawyers Roundtable Show (July 21, 2010).
• One-hour interview, Oral History Collection, JFK Museum, Dallas, TX, Aug. 23, 2010. ©2010 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. All rights reserved. www.jfk.org.
• "Women Helping Women," panel discussion with Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Meridith Gray, Suzanne Blake and Jessica Robinson (August 20, 2010).
• Interview on radio station TRN. The interviewer is Derrick Blair, Host of “Now It’s The News,” a nationally-syndicated satirical news program (Part One, July 17, 2010).
• Interview on radio station TRN. The interviewer is Derrick Blair, Host of “Now It’s The News,” a nationally-syndicated satirical news program (Part Two, July 17, 2010).
• Interview on Dresser After Dark radio show (July 15, 2010).
• Interview by Rob McConnell, host and executive producer of the XZone radio program based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (August 6, 2010).
• Interview by Jerry Puffer on KSEN—radio station 1150 AM out of Shelby, Montana (July 27, 2010).
• Lillian Brummet interview for blogtalkradio.com, June 20, 2010.
• Sonia's job hunting success story on How I Got My Job (December 2009).
• Sonia as a BBC Radio Four panelist (March 2009).
• Sonia's interview on Women Matters (October 10, 2009).
• Sonia's interview on Women Matters (September 23, 2008).
• Interview by Gretchen Orscheidt, Cornell alumni representative, about Sonia's experiences at Cornell (April 2008).
• Sonia's August 2007 interview (16 minutes) (in English) by Linda Jiménez Glassman, host of the English Corner on radiosefarad, an Internet radio program originating in Madrid, Spain.
• Interview of Sonia by Ann Corcoran for then-MADY radio in Sarasota, FL (April 2, 2002).
• Excerpts from Sonia's memoir dealing with her experiences in the Catskills, 2nd annual conference of the Catskills Institute (Aug. 30—Sept. 2, 1996). This is available as a CD from Creative Seminars (see below).

Video Links

• TV program shown in Antwerp, Belgium about Sonia on September 13, 2011 (Sonia and her family will be featured in the Red Star Line Museum due to open in Antwerp on Sept. 28, 2013.)
• Sonia's remarks at the national conference of NOW (June 25, 2011)
• Sonia’s acceptance remarks at NOW’s annual conference on receiving an award for being a cofounder of NOW, Tampa, FL, June 2011. (Initial remarks are missing.)
• Interview for Yiddishlives.com (January 2, 2011)
• Short video by Xlilbris, Sonia's publisher (2009)
• YouTube clip on Sonia's role in the founding of NOW from a video by Jamie Spooner and Carolyn Mayes for the series The Wisdom of Elders Across America.

Sonia, discussing the founding of NOW (February, 2010). This interview was conducted by filmmakers Jamie Spooner and Carolyn Mayes in February 2010; their website is icarevillage.com.