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Heidi Basch-Harod

Jun 27, 2026, 4:56 PM

You know that moment when you come back to the present moment but didn’t realize you had left? Best described as mysterious experiences of time travel, I find myself in places and moments I’ve been before. At an outdoor...

Sep 22, 2025, 12:16 AM

Thirty Septembers Later: On Gender Equality

September 2025 marks the 30th Anniversary of the U.N. Beijing Platform for Action, when then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made a famous statement at the 4th United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, that “human rights are...

Jul 30, 2025, 12:35 PM

Joining the Quest for Justice

We’ve all had those “tunnel” moments, when something happens, or something is said, that shocks the system to such an extent that we feel as though we are moving in space, backwards and far away. The body remains in...

Nov 28, 2024, 11:17 PM

Silencing the Screams One Year Later

Less than a week before Thanksgiving, Nada flew all the way from Oklahoma to show up next to me for a screening and panel discussion of Screams Before Silence and our film, Daughters of Abraham, at Southern California’s private, liberal arts Occidental College....

About Me

Heidi Basch-Harod is an American-Israeli, and the Executive Director of Women's Voices Now, a Los Angeles-based women's rights organization using film to drive social change that advances girls' and women's rights globally.

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