April 5th

Tuesday, April 5th:

Today was another productive day! I spent the majority of the day reaching out to my contacts. I emailed a professional women's soccer player, and I'm excited to see her response. I told her about my project, and even attached my TED talk from earlier this year. My TED talk was about lack of opportunity and reward for women's soccer players, so I hope she'll find it interesting and relatable. I am planning on asking her to put me into contact with other people if she responds, because she played in the Olympics and World Cup so she has a lot of connections.

After emailing all of my contacts informing them of my project, I went back to working on the interview questions. I now have 4 questions for each of my contacts. Additionally, I think I found a way to get even more interesting contacts. One of my friends dad works for Adidas International Travel Program, a company that sends soccer teams overseas to participate in games and tournaments. I reached out to him, and he said he has many people he can put me into contact with. I'm very excited to see where this takes me.

Finally, today I made a little change about the concept of my project today. Since 5 members of the U.S. women's national team just filed a wage discrimination lawsuit against US Soccer, I really want to make my project relevant to this. Because of this, a lot of the interview questions I wrote today had to do with pay inequity for women in soccer or lack of opportunity for female soccer players around the world. This is what my TED talk from earlier in the year was about, and I think it is an extremely important issue right now. I believe women deserve equal pay for soccer, and I think my podcast is a great vehicle for getting this point across.