S1E4: How I Started a Nonprofit (and won an Oscar at age 19) with Sophie Ascheim

The New School Podcast with Christine Hong

When Sophie Ascheim was just 16, she helped start a non profit called the The Pad Project, which gives access to menstrual products and pad making machines for women in low income communities throughout the world. In India alone, 23 million girls drop out of school early when they start menstruating because they are unable to handle their periods properly. For the Pad Project, she helped produce a documentary called "Period. End of Sentence", on Netflix now, which later got her an Oscar at age 19 for best documentary short. The passion Sophie has for what she does is super inspiring, and it really shows no matter what age you are, anyone can make a difference in the world. In this episode, Sophie talks about how she helped start a non profit and how their documentary ended up winning an Oscar.