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C³: Community, Creativity, and Change
Check out my award-winning blog here: https://medium.com/marie-curie-alumni/c³-community-creativity-and-change-8a170cb079b0


The Big Easy, Kin in the Making, and Bisons at Fermilab
I was recently greeted by three young, friendly faces in the elevator. The chattiest of them compliments my outfit, to which I reply,...


Ankara, Happy Meals, and Faith Ringgold
Have you ever thought that a Happy Meal had a place in the classroom? I did not until I saw one in action as a didactical tool. It was in...


Chicago Rat Hole: A Site of Tourist Attraction and Kinship Trouble
Would you ever go out of your way to visit a hole in the ground? I’d guess not for anything less majestic than the Grand Canyon. In...


Making the familiar strange: NYC through an athropological lens
A white, middle-aged person recently told me she is a true New Yorker, being born in NYC. However, what makes a "true" New Yorker appears...


Conferencing, Science-Inspired Landmarks, and Why Christmas Is Just a Train Ride Away
In 2022, Canadian parliament recognized the country’s residential school system as genocide. More than 150,000 Indigenous children were...


Why bother about the Earth System and decentering the human?
It’s Tuesday, 31st of October. I am in my office, sipping black tea from a mug hand-painted in Turkey and bought from a local T.J.Maxx...


Halloweek(end), autumn in Illinois, and a cheering bus
Did you know that some chimpanzees experience menopause? They are the first non-human primates to be documented experiencing it. These...


From Vienna to Chicago: A Move from the First to the “Second City”
First impressions, a new beginning, and a steep learning curve As of September 25th, 2023, I have moved from Vienna, Austria to Chicago,...
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