This December, join us for five stories on the theme of power, ranging from power over our own bodies to the complicated power dynamics among students and faculty. We'll present stories from a writer who took control after discovering she and her family were the first known people to experience a brand-new (and deadly) genetic mutation; a scientist, who, after being sexually assaulted by a fellow PhD student, returns to the lab to find her attacker is still there; a grad student accused of stealing drugs from his lab with no evidence; and more.
Doors open at 7:30. Show starts at 8 pm. Hosted by Erin Barker and Paula Croxson.
Stories by:
Jamie Brickhouse is a New York Times-published author and a three-time Moth StorySLAM champion. He has recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon Beavis and Butthead and is currently touring his award-winning solo show, Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother, which is based on his critically-acclaimed memoir and directed by Obie-winning David Drake. He’s also a Literary Death Match champ, has performed live on Kevin Allison’s Risk!, and is a regular performer on the New York storytelling circuit. Jamie has been published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Salon, Out, Huffington Post, and is a guest blogger for POZ. Friend him on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and Instagram @jamiebrickhouse, and visit www.jamiebrickhouse.com. Jamie is a board member of the Lewy Body Dementia Resource Center. To find out more about LBD, visit www.lewybodyresourcecenter.org.
Tristan Fehr is a doctoral student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he studies how early-life anesthesia exposures impact brain structures years later. Tristan is a graduate of Arizona State University and previously received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Spain. It was in Madrid that he first became drawn into science communication as he charted the emergence of research implicating gut bacteria in depression and anxiety. As Executive Editor for NYC Science Communication, Tristan currently manages a science communication training blog for up-and-coming science writers and editors to hone their crafts. Link: https://nycscicomm.org/blogs/
Joselin Linder is a regular contributor to the NEW YORK POST, whose work has also been featured on THIS AMERICAN LIFE, MORNING EDITION and LIFE OF THE LAW. She spoke at the TEDX GOWANUS event in Brooklyn in 2014, presenting for the first time on the subject of her family gene and the deadly illness to which it leads. Exclusive to just fourteen people, the story of the gene is told in Linder’s new book, THE FAMILY GENE, coming out in 2017. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two dogs.
Lyl Tomlinson is a Brooklyn native and a neuroscience graduate student at Stony Brook University. He is also a science communication fanatic who often asks: “Would my grandma understand this?” Using this question as a guiding principle, he won the 2014 NASA FameLab science communication competition and became the International final runner-up. In addition to making complex information understandable, he has a growing interest in science policy. Lyl meets with government representatives to advocate for science related issues and regularly develops programs to tackle problems ranging from scientific workforce issues to the Opioid Epidemic. Outside of his work and career passions, he seems to harbor an odd obsession with sprinkles and is a (not so) comic book and anime nerd.