Join us for our first Boston show of the decade with five true, personal stories about treacherous paths!
Hosted by Ari Daniel and Katherine Wu.
Doors at 7:30 p.m. Stories begin at 8 p.m.
Stories by:
Angie Chatman has told for MassMouth, Fugitive Stories, Tell-All Boston, WGBH's Stories from the Stage, The Riot, and The Moth. An engineer by degree, she initially worked in computer hardware design. She earned her MBA from MIT-Sloan and holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University in Charlotte. She now knits, turning yarn into sweaters and blankets, and is a freelance writer and editor, who turns words into stories. Her articles can be found in Business Insider magazine, and Business Education Forum. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Blood Orange Review, fwriction:review and elsewhere. A Chicago native, Angie now lives with her husband, children, and dog, Lizzie, in Watertown, Massachusetts. Follow Angie @angiecwriter
Ari Daniel has always been enchanted by the natural world. As a kid, he packed his Wildlife Treasury box full of species cards. As a graduate student, Ari trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) and helped tag wild killer whales (Orcinus orca). These days, as Senior Digital Producer for NOVA and an independent science reporter for outlets including public radio, he works with a species he’s better equipped to understand — Homo sapiens. Ari has reported on science topics across five continents and is a co-recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for audio. In the fifth grade, Ari won the “Most Contagious Smile” award.Find him on Instagram at @mesoplodon_
Dallas Ducar, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CNL, NREMT-B, is the Clinical Lead for Mental Health Services at the MGH Transgender Health Program. Inspired by others, Dallas draws together psychology, philosophy, queer theory, and contemplative science in her daily work. Clinically, she works with gender-expansive patients providing holistic, gender-affirming, psychiatric care. Her main research interests include moral psychology, trauma, and resilience. She seeks to harness the power of morality and prosociality, collaborating with vulnerable gender-expansive populations to direct community-based research. She continually works to create a more celebratory and open-hearted queer-friendly healthcare environment.
Lumumba Seegars is a PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. He studies how individuals’ values and identities shape how they experience, enact, and react to organizational initiatives focused on inequality. Specifically, he studies diversity and inclusion, income inequality, and the (positive and negative) consequences of value misfit in organizations. His dissertation explores how women and racial minorities collectively organize around their identities at work and attempt to make their workplaces more inclusive. He has work experience in education, the performing arts, political campaigns, and ministry. Lumumba completed his undergraduate studies in Social Studies at Harvard College.
Joshua Sokol is an award-winning science journalist who writes about astronomy, paleontology, and other topics in natural history.
After earning a master’s degree in science writing at MIT, Joshua decided to become a freelance writer and try to convince editors to let him chase down the parts of nature he loved as a kid.
So far, that chase has led him to into far-flung stories about the uncertain future of animals like the axolotl and the Florida panther, fossil discoveries like Cretaceous-era amber and the earliest evidence of animal life on earth, and cosmic controversies like the bitter debate over just how fast our expanding universe is actually expanding.
A homebody in disguise, he and his anxiety otherwise work from home in Inman Square. Connect with him on Twitter @josh_sokol.