This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Sara Taber, author, social worker, psychologist, educator, and daughter of a CIA operative. For the past five years, Taber has run Writing for Resilience workshops for underprivileged communities. Taber's recent work uplifting the voices and writing of Afghan women has provided critical aid and a needed expressive outlet for people whose very ability to speak is criminalized. Negotiating the risk of exposure with the growing need to platform these stories, Sara Taber has partnered with ROOM in the We Are The Light Series, available for free on ROOM's website. Taber showcases the bravery, wit, passion, and talent of these young women who are asking, above all else, to have their voices heard and their lives valued before it is too late.

"The story of Afghanistan, my young women informants have taught me, is yet more complicated even than a battle between communism, democracy, and Islamic forces or a battle over women’s position in society. Stories upon stories, I have learned, compose the story of a country. But just being a woman of a certain generation is not the whole story, either. My young informants have disabused me of the notion that there is one Afghanistan story."
- Sara Taber "The Afghanistan Story" ROOM 10.24