Anita Hill Is Still Asking the Hard Questions

Anita Hill's name carries weight before you even hit play. In 1991, she sat in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and testified against Clarence Thomas, and that moment made her one of the most recognizable figures in the American fight for gender equality. Decades later, she's still doing that work, just from a different chair, as the host of Getting Even with Anita Hill.

Who she is. Hill is a law professor and author who built a career studying equality long after that testimony made her a household name. She writes and teaches on gender, race, and power, and she brings that lens directly into the show. Every episode, she sits down with someone working on what the show calls the "frontlines of improving our imperfect world," and asks them to walk through how they got there.

The show she runs. Getting Even isn't built around Hill telling her own story on repeat. It's built around other people's stories, with her as the guide. Recent guests give you a sense of the range: entrepreneur Arlan Hamilton talks tech access and venture capital in Diversifying Silicon Valley with Arlan Hamilton, curator Thelma Golden talks art and community in Making Space for Art and Community with Thelma Golden, and Misty Copeland talks dance and self-determination in Misty Copeland on Her Own Terms. Tech, art, ballet, activism. Hill isn't chasing one lane. She's chasing the pattern underneath all of it: people who broke a rule or went off script to get where they are.

A personality read, grounded in the work. You can only read so much into a show's guest list and format, but it says something real: Hill leads with curiosity rather than lecture. She's spent thirty-plus years being the subject of other people's questions about power and gender. Here, she flips that, and the questions she picks (about risk, about reinvention, about the cost of going against the grain) read like they come from someone who has lived through exactly that kind of scrutiny herself. Patient, direct, unwilling to settle for a tidy answer.

How you may know her. Most people know Hill from the 1991 testimony, which remains one of the most-covered moments in modern Senate history. Fewer know the decades of work that came after it: teaching law, writing books on gender and equality, and building a public voice that outlasted the news cycle that first introduced her. Getting Even, produced with Pushkin Industries and distributed through iHeartMedia, is a continuation of that work in a different format: instead of being interviewed about her history, she's interviewing others about theirs.

Socials. The directory doesn't have social links on file for Hill at this time.

Where things stand now. Worth being upfront about this: the directory has marked Getting Even inactive as of April 2026. The last new episode went up back in May 2022, and a gap that long usually means one thing, the show has quietly wrapped its run rather than gone on a temporary break.

If you've only known Anita Hill as a name from a headline, this show is worth a listen for a different reason: it's her turn to ask the questions, and what she chooses to ask about tells you plenty about what she still cares about.