Welcome to the Intergenerational Dialogues Podcast! 

Hosted by photographer  Captain Maggie Hallahan, this podcast is an open conversation with a wide variety of Co-Hosts and guests, candidly talking about gender equality and other important issues in the world.

The podcast will officially launch on March 23, 2020, but before we drop the First Episode, we are sharing some bonus content that was produced last year, during Women's History Month 2019.

In this Throwback Episode, Captain Maggie moderates a conversation between tech entrepreneur Megan Smith and ocean navigator Captain Lehua Kamalu. 

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More about Megan Smith: Megan is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist. She recently co-founded shift7, a company focused on tech-forward networked innovation for impact and economic inclusion. Smith served as the third U.S. chief technology officer from 2014-2017. She spent over eleven years as a vice president at Google, leading new business. In that role, she led acquisitions of Google Earth, Maps, and Picasa. Earlier, Smith was CEO of PlanetOut, worked on early smartphone technologies at General Magic and at Apple Japan. She is an advisor to the MIT Media Lab, Vital Voices, Thinkof-Us, co-founded the Malala Fund, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she serves on the board as a life member. She completed her master’s thesis work at the MIT Media Lab and was a member of the MIT student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car 2,000 miles across the Australian outback.

More about Captain Lehua Kamalu: Lehua is the first woman to serve as captain and lead navigator of a long-distance ocean crossing for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, on the ancestral voyaging canoe Hikianilia. Her 13-person crew traveled some 2,800 miles over 23 days from Honolulu to Half Moon Bay, California, to raise awareness about the dire state of our oceans. Instead of GPS, the crew used traditional Polynesian wayfinding techniques, taking cues from the sun, stars, waves and birds. Lehua was born in New York and raised in Hawaiʻi, and holds a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi. She’s been involved with the Polynesian Voyaging Society since 2009.