A Substack glitch cut off the intros (guest names and roles), but the interview is otherwise intact.
🌎 Happy Earth Day!🌍
This is the perfect day to drop the recording of the interview I had last week with Liz Neeley, Founding Partner at Liminal and co-creator of the USC Storymakers Fellowship, and John Asante, Founder and Creative Director of JKB Wash and Dry Productions, as well as audio instructor for the USC Storymakers Fellowship. More about our guests here.
Some topics we discussed include:
How the USC Storymakers Fellowship runs
The challenges facing scientists and faculty interested in creative work
Misconceptions about public trust in science
How the fellowship approaches audio storytelling
Tips for scientists and administrators on how to embrace storytelling
It’s a great conversation, and as you can see from the thumbnail, there’s laughter! Let us know what you think.
Coming Up from our Guests
John is teaching a Radio Bootcamp Class on creating an interview podcast in June.
Liz and the team at Unbreaking publish a weekly newsletter.
“Unbreaking is a sensemaking project. We exhaustively follow and fact-check emerging news to build timelines of events. Then we cross-reference and compare our own understandings with in-depth reports and analyses to explain what seems to be happening and why.”
USC Storymakers Program Participant Projects to Check Out
Dr. Scott Taylor’s podcast ‘Okay, But...Birds’
Ambika Kamath’s book Feminism in the Wild
Merritt Turetsky’s book Boglands, which is coming out this fall
Sue Pierre discussed Critical Ecology Lab on Ologies w/Alie Ward
Bill Deverell’s podcast Western Edition
Ben Halpern’s book Blue Gold. The book doesn’t have a web presence yet, but you can learn about his work on Ologies w/ Alie Ward.
Lisa Graumlich’s Substack Thin Places
Nyeema Harris’s episode of PBS Wild Hope - “Learning to Coexist with Detroit’s Urban Wildlife”
Looking for more content for Earth Day, check out last week’s newsletter:
