Join us in Decatur for an outdoor show exploring the way science takes us to unfamiliar places!
Produced by Kellie Vinal and Emma Yarbrough
Please note:
While the venue is outdoors, all audience members will be asked to wear masks when indoors going through the venue to get to the restrooms or other facilities.
Stories by:
Cassandra Quave, PhD, is the herbarium curator and an associate professor of dermatology and human health at Emory University. Dr. Quave is a fellow of The Explorers Club, a former president of the Society for Economic Botany, and a recipient of the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and Charles B. Heiser, Jr. Mentor Award. She is the cocreator and host of Foodie Pharmacology, a podcast dedicated to exploring the links between food and medicine. A leader in the field of medical botany, she has authored more than 100 scientific publications and has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and BBC Science Focus, as well as on PBS, NPR, and National Geographic TV. Dr. Quave is author of a science memoir The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines. She lives in Atlanta in a full and energetic house with her husband, four children, dog, mini-pig and many houseplants.
Meisa Salaita has made it her mission to help others see and appreciate the beauty of science by making it a part of everyday cultural experiences. Through her work founding and directing Science ATL, she spends her days convincing everyone else to fall in love with science as well. To that end, Meisa also writes, has produced radio stories, and hosted TV shows — all in the name of science. In addition to her work with Science ATL, Meisa is a producer for The Story Collider, a science storytelling podcast. Meisa has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern, and has been named by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of their "Women Who Mean Business" and by Atlanta Magazine as one of their "Women Making a Mark".
Hannah Church is an actress/playwright around Atlanta. She has worked at the Alliance Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Arís Theatre, and the Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival in her co-written musical The Yellow Wallpaper. International Tours: The Tower where she performed in South America, the Middle East, and Asia. 2014/15 Playwright Apprentice at Horizon Theatre. Teaching Artist ages 3-18 at the Alliance Theatre. Film/Tv (The Oval-BET, Killer Couples-Oxygen)
Youssef Saklawi is an internal medicine resident at Emory. He moved to the US in 2019 from Beirut to work as a vaccine and therapeutics researcher. His work mostly covered COVID-19, and he hopes to become an infectious disease specialist one day. In his free time he likes to listen to podcasts, try the best Atlanta restaurants, and be the social butterfly that he is.