Join RCIScience for an evening of true, personal stories about how science made things awkward at this live recording of The Story Collider podcast!
From heart-breaking to hilarious, The Story Collider show is a live storytelling event featuring stories from people of all walks of life about how science helps us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human. Whether you wear a lab coat or haven’t seen a test tube since grade school, science is shaping all our lives.
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About The Hosts
Misha Gajewski: As managing producer at The Story Collider, Misha supervises the production our shows and produces and hosts the podcast. She is also a freelance journalist, educator, and copywriter. Her work has appeared on Vice, Forbes, BlogTO, CTV News, and BBC, among others. She’s the co-founder of the world’s first 24-hour true storytelling festival and has written scripts for the award-winning YouTube channel SciShow. Misha has a degree in business and psychology from Western University and a Masters in science journalism from City University London. She also has a cat named Satan and when she’s not writing in her pyjamas, she can be found exploring the world or refinishing old furniture. She is @mishagajewski and mishagajewski@storycollider.org.
Dr. Sara Mazrouei is a planetary scientist, an educational developer, and a science communicator with a passion for sharing the wonders of the universe with the public. Her PhD research focused on the recent bombardment history of the Moon and links to future sample-return missions. Her work has been featured in many media such as the New York Times and National Geographic. Sara is also passionate about increasing the status of women in STEM as well as equity, diversity and meaningful inclusion. Sara uses storytelling, examples including the Story Collider and TEDx Downsview Women, as a method for sharing her authentic experiences and making science more accessible. She is currently an Educational Developer at Ryerson University's Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.
About The Storytellers
Tamara Shevon is a Toronto-based comic who started her comedic story-telling through wine-coloured glasses in Beijing, China. Since then, she has been blazing through the Toronto scene with her characteristic wit and her lovable ability to flirt with the boundaries of socially acceptable. Tamara has performed at Just For Laughs, Just for Laughs Toronto, the Comedy is Art Festival, and was recently featured on Out for Laughs on OutTV. Tamara currently has her debut album 'Purse Wine' and sophomore album ‘Table Wine’ available on bandcamp.com and all other streaming platforms.
Dr. Cassandra Hartblay is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where she works with graduate students in Anthropology, European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Disability Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies, as well as undergraduates in Health Humanities. She is author of the 2020 book "I Was Never Alone or Oporniki" (University of Toronto Press 2020) and numerous articles, a documentary play, and co-curator of the #CripRitual art exhibition. If you can't find her, she's probably our running or swimming with her dog, an Aussie-Retriever mix named Arlo.
Edith Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Critical Museum Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. She studies the global flow of ecological knowledge within the context of transatlantic slavery. Edith is a Fulbright Scholar of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, will be a Research Fellow at All Souls College - Oxford University in 2024, and is committed to decolonizing the spaces in which she works. Her current NSF-funded field research takes place on the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda in the Eastern Caribbean, but she is not there on vacation no matter what the photos of pina coladas might indicate. She is a two-time champion of the Smut Slam sex storytelling show because of her creative use of profanity and complete lack of shame. Her dedication to logic and sci-fi fangirldom have earned her the nickname of "the Puerto-Rican Mr. Spock.”
Part-journalist, part-theatre kid, Tay Glass is a senior producer for Back Pocket Media. He helps journalists from across the US adapt their stories to the stage. When not producing stories, Tay is probably binging a podcast or doting on his Millennial dog-child, Pepper.