Hardwired: On the Frontlines of Freedom

Our interview with Jenny Yang uncovers the many evident and unseen challenges of the refugee experience.  How can a country and local community address both the humanitarian needs of refugees, and ho…

Human rights advocate and professional athlete Enes Freedom was the special guest for Hardwired Global’s fundraiser on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.  Enes headlined this special ev…

In this conversation, our special guest Xi Van Fleet shares her experience surviving the Cultural Revolution in China. Xi describes the Communist tactics for seizing power by way of the “3D’s”: divis…

During our interview with Ambassador at Large for Western Sahara Mouloud Said, he illustrates the 45-year struggle of fighting for the Sahrawi people, whose land was invaded shortly after the Spanish…

In this conversation, Hardwired Founder and President, Tina Ramirez, and high school educator, Zeina Dbouk, discuss the ways Zeina’s father stood up to corruption in Lebanon, which inspired her to co…

Mr. Conde is a prolific author and lecturer in the U.S. and Europe who has defended countless refugees and individuals persecuted for their faith in his private law practice.

In our interview, he shar…

Mohaned’s story symbolizes the struggle many Sudanese Muslims experienced while living under the brutal rule of Sudan’s former dictator, Omar al Bashir.  Mohaned describes the rampant discrimination …

“Every single country that’s a threat to peace, is a threat to their own people. Without exception.”
 
Our next guest, Suzanne Scholte, gave North Korean defectors a voice in the U.S. Congress. Suzanne…

In this latest On the Frontlines of Freedom episode, we share an interview with Dr. de Jong, a former Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Government who went on to successfully found and …

As a secular country with the largest Muslim population in the world, Dr. Alissa Wahid works to honor the nation’s 1928 pledge that the country is united on grounds of religious diversity and freedom…

In this next conversation with Tatiana Moon, daughter of the founder of the Unification Church, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, she opens up about the public misunderstandings of the Church, and shares her …

In this conversation with Dr. Felisa Tibbitts, co-founder of Human Rights Education Associates, we discuss the importance of teaching children and communities about their human rights. 

As a fellow gl…

In this conversation, Tina Ramirez, Hardwired Global founder, and president, and Angela Wu Howard, a distinguished international human rights lawyer, discuss the dangers of government overreach and i…

In this conversation, Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C, Naomi Kikoler, discusses the role of the Museum as t…

The last two years have exposed the lack of understanding many officials have about America’s first amendment protection of the freedom of religion.  Under the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, man…

“And that was a moment that I’ll never forget. So many people had been living in the political prison for years in very inhuman conditions. The smell, the filthiness, there was no sun.”

This interview…

“Eleanor Roosevelt one day, got up and said ‘Dr. Charles Malik has been talking about the importance of the individual, and I have to say that the United States and other Western powers agree with th…

"I’m not working for Muslims, Hindus, or Christians, I’m working for the rule of law. I’m working for justice, for liberty, for freedom. If one is not free, then none are free." – Ajit Sahi, Indian A…

"We are experiencing globally this massive spike in anti-Semitic incidence, rhetoric and attitudes that is unprecedented at least in the last generation. People are making a lot of comparisons to 193…

A first-generation American Muslim, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser's parents fled the oppressive Baath regime of Syria in the mid-1960's for American freedom. He shares about how his family’s experience influen…