Feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem with Natasha Mitchell and guests on travels that transformed them

Trailblazing feminist, political activist, journalist, and founder of Ms Magazine Gloria Steinem died this week at age 92 after a big life changing lives. In her memoir My Life on the Road she recounted how taking to the road fundamentally changed her understanding of the world and who she could be. Médecins Sans Frontières co-founder, French diplomat and novelist Jean-Christophe Rufin worked in war zones as a doctor and walked the Camino de Santiago as a pilgrim. Acclaimed poet and Yankunytjatjara woman Ali Cobby Eckermann found family, connection, and Country on a different kind of pilgrimage. This well-travelled trio joined Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2016 to explore their love of life on the road, and the bigger consequences of their transformative encounters along the way. Speakers Gloria Steinem American feminist and political activist, journalist, and founder of Ms Magazine Ali Cobby Eckermann Proud Yankunytjatjara woman Multi-award-winning poet and author Jean-Christophe Rufin Author, former diplomat, doctor, co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders This event was held in 2016 (not 2015 as mentioned) and first broadcast in 2017 on ABC Radio National.