season one
These women aren't waiting for the future. They're building it.
New episodes every other Wednesday, starting July 29, 2026.
Conversations with the women shaping our future through science, technology, and discovery. Season one arrives July 29, 2026.
(yes, we are redefining the word.)
alpha exists to tell the stories of the women whose ideas are changing how we understand ourselves, our planet, and what comes next.
Long-form conversations about ambition, failure, discovery, leadership, risk and the moments that changed everything.
Resources, stories, and tools that make the people, ideas, and careers building tomorrow more visible, and more imaginable.
Mentorship and a forthcoming guidebook for teen girls stepping into science, technology, and discovery, because the path starts long before the PhD.
New episodes every other Wednesday, starting July 29, 2026.
Every frontier is seen through a different lens. A five-part mini-series introducing the women redefining their fields.
alpha × artificial intelligence
the women shaping artificial intelligence, and the future it’s writing
launching after season one
alpha × design
the women transforming engineering and math into fashion and design
in development
alpha × discovery
the women expanding the boundaries of human knowledge
on the horizon
alpha is creating a guidebook for the next generation: the honest, practical companion we wish someone had handed us, written with the women you'll hear on the show.
coming soon
The questions to ask, the people to find, and why you belong there anyway.
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I often think about my own story and how each chapter has led me to the next. From immigrating to the United States from South Africa when I was 18, to earning my PhD in Biomedical Sciences and completing my postdoctorate work in Biomedical Engineering, to the Department of Defense during the Ebola response, to advising the UK Ambassador on science at the British Embassy, to helping lead the President’s Cancer Moonshot at the White House. None of it was planned. No chapter could have predicted the next.
Today I’m a Senior Fellow at Harvard, building the first dedicated financing architecture for cancer care in the countries that need it most. And along the way, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside women whose ideas have shaped policy, transformed medicine, explored the oceans, mapped the universe, defended science, and helped define the future of technology. Their stories deserved a much bigger audience. That’s why I created alpha.
Conversations about how they got there, what they know, and what brings them hope. I was once an 18-year-old who had no idea if there was a place for her in any of this. If I could go back and tell her about the extraordinary path ahead, I would in a heartbeat. But I haven’t invented time travel yet. So instead, this show is here to illuminate the paths forward for everyone who’s ever wondered the same.
A limited-release Champion crop tee, out July 29 for two weeks only. Black, white, or grey, heavyweight cotton, boxy cropped cut.
All proceeds go to the Union of Concerned Scientists, in support of defending science.
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