a history podcast

So, Who Is She?

Behind every great moment in history is a woman the record books left out. So, Who is She? investigates one forgotten, brilliant, unapologetic woman per episode and reconstructs how she was written out of the story — before revealing exactly who she was.

'So, Who is She?' podcast cover art: a woman's silhouette against a violet background, with host credit 'with Kirsten Wirth.'
Hosted by
Kirsten Wirth
the mission

History left her out. We're putting her back in.

Every episode of So, Who is She? opens with a mystery: a life full of firsts, risks, and hard-won victories, told without the one detail that would let you look her up. You get her story exactly the way history nearly buried it — and only at the end do you get her name.

Some episodes cover women whose achievements were quietly absorbed into a man's legacy. Others cover women who had to hide who they were just to do the work at all. All of them changed something real, whether or not the record ever gave them credit for it.

9Episodes released
1Woman featured per episode
100%Name revealed by the end
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Marvin

Decades before Charles Darrow ever touched a dice cup, one woman had already designed the game, filed the patent, and built it around a lesson about landlords she wanted the whole country to learn.

July 30, 2026 25 min

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Meet the host

Kirsten Wirth researches, writes, and narrates every episode of So, Who is She?, digging through primary sources, archives, and biographies to reconstruct each woman's story before revealing who she was.