What does personal and political empowerment mean to you? For Mona Sherpa empowering herself on a personal level meant working with communities involved in political activism. Along the way she fought against patriarchy, her family's relative poverty, and political instability in Nepal.

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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Act more, Talk Less
0:46 - Intro
1:53 - Mona's background
5:50 - Growing up a Rebellious Overachiever
11:15 - Household Patriarchy
15:29 - Grandparents and Religion
20:44 - Uni and Work
23:07 - Marriage as Confinement
29:58 - Post-Marriage and Travels
37:10 - ActionAid University
45:28 - Community Empowerment and Political Change
53:05 - Citizenship, Patriarchy and India
59:50 - Post ActionAid Life
1:04:10 - Current humanitarian situation in Nepal
1:07:43 - Advice to 18-year-old Mona
1:10:28 - The next generation