As part of Brooklyn Podcast Festival, we present some of our favorite stories from 2019!
Stories by these storytellers and a special guest:
Michelle Tong is a writer and medical student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the Margins, Glass, and JAMA, among other journals, and she reads for the Bellevue Literary Review. Last summer, she won first prize in the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards and received a fellowship from Brooklyn Poets. She teaches poetry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lives in East Harlem.
Dr. Victoria Ruiz is an Assistant Professor in Biology at St. Francis College and Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU Langone medical center. She obtained her PhD in Pathobiology from Brown University, and she completed her postdoctoral work at New York University Langone Medical Center. Her primary research focuses on the effects of environmental perturbations of microbial communities on host immunity. In addition to research, she is passionate about increasing equity and inclusion in STEM and developing new and innovative pedagogical strategies to improve learning outcomes for undergraduate students interested in pursuing STEM fields.
Anders Lee is a Brooklyn based comedian, writer and podcaster. He has performed standup at venues and festivals in New York and all around the country, including the Laughing Devil Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Fest and Charm City Comedy Festival. Most recently, he traveled to Scotland for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his solo show 'Dummy', an hour long comedy about the Autistic spectrum, where it received two four-star reviews. 'Dummy' will be returning to Edinburgh in August.
Anders co-hosts the comedy/politics podcast Pod Damn America, which releases two episodes a week. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and co-producer of Paid Protest, a monthly comedy fundraiser for NYC-DSA. You can find his writings about what it means to be "autistic" on the website Mad in America.