Join us for our February show in Washington, DC, featuring five true, personal stories about finding our power in science.
Hosted by Shane M Hanlon and Maryam Zaringhalam.
Doors at 7:00pm. Show at 7:30pm.
Stories by:
Callan Bentley is a geology professor at Northern Virginia Community College’s Annandale campus. He has given more than a hundred public talks and led dozens of field trips at venues across the DC Metro region. For many years, Callan served as a Contributing Editor for EARTH magazine. Callan is the Past President of the Geological Society of Washington. Callan writes the geology blog Mountain Beltway, and is known as an innovator in digital geoscience visualization. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia recognized Callan with the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2015. He was named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2017. The National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized his online outreach work with the Jim Shea Award in 2018. He lives with his wife and son in the Fort Valley of western Virginia. He has been a birder for 25 years.
Yael Fitzpatrick is an art director, publications designer, writer, and science communicator. She spent the first part of her life concentrating on math and the sciences, and then took an unexpected detour into the arts. She has since managed to come somewhat full circle and has spent the last couple of decades devoted to communicating scholarly content through design and words. Having previously served as Art Director for the Science family of journals and Manager of Design and Branding for the American Geophysical Union, Yael now runs Gazelle Design Consultancy, providing art direction, design, and brand expertise to the scholarly community. She loves the proper use of an en dash. Follow her at @GazelleInDminor.
Brittany Martínez is a 5th year PhD candidate at the University of Virginia in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. Upon graduation from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Engineering (Biomedical) in 2015, she decided to expand her possibilities by pursuing her doctorate in the field of Immunometabolism. Her thesis work centers on how external forces from inflammation affect the synthesis and storage of different lipid species in fruit flies. Her hope is to aid in the discovery of a connection between metabolic diseases, such as Type 1 Diabetes, which impacts her own life daily. She is as an advocate for undergraduate as well as graduate students from training undergraduates in the lab to her leadership in student organizations across campus, such as the Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team (GRIT@UVA). In her free time, she likes to relax at home with her lovable rescue kitten, Wallace, and spend time with her family back home in Richmond, especially her nephew Matthew.
Jen White Johnson, born in DC and currently residing in Baltimore, is a Designer, Photographer, Art Activist, Art Educator, Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at Bowie State University. In October 2018 she released an advocacy photo zine entitled "KnoxRoxs" dedicated to her autistic son, as a way to give visibility to children of color in the autism community. Since its release, the zine has received national and international recognition, including features in AfroPunk, The 2019 Women’s March on Washington, The Autism Society of Baltimore, and is permanently archived in Libraries at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Sufian Zhemukhov is an award-winning author and performer. He received the 2020 J. J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award, from the National Storytelling Network, "to a storyteller of major and unique performing talent." He is The 2019 Moth Champion and winner at the 2018 Story Slam at the National Storytelling Festival. Sufian’s recent solo show, Flirting Like an American, received critical acclaim in Washington, DC and Rochester, NY. Sufian's stories are based on his personal experience as a first-generation immigrant and professor of international affairs at George Washington University that might be much funnier than you would expect. His recent book, Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance, won the 2019 Best Book Award at the International Studies Association.