The Pandemicene Podcast aims to produce knowledge that can help all of us – scholars and scientists, students and activists – imagine and enact just futures both in our home state of California and in our communities worldwide.
Airing on KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM, on Wednesday, January 27th, 7 – 8 pm PST.
Link to the live stream, or listen below after the episode airs.
Welcome to the Pandemicene podcast! Today we welcome you to a roundtable with the Pandemicene team. In this conversation we reflect on the past ten months of working together to create and publish our podcast series, as well as the themes we would like to focus on for the upcoming months.
We also invite you, our listeners, to send us your comments, thoughts, and questions! Tell us about the episodes you’ve enjoyed, what topics interest you, and what you would like would like to see more of. You can email these to Dennis at: dbrowe [at] ucscu.edu.
Isa Ansari is a recent graduate from the sociology department at UCSC. She was born and raised in the East Bay, where she currently lives and organizes. Isa loves skateboarding, reading, and writing poems.
Dennis Browe is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. Dennis’ work lies at the intersections of medical sociology, science & technology studies (STS), public health, sexuality and gender studies, and feminist theory.
Kathia Damian, a College Ten affiliate, is a fourth-year literature student and News Director at KZSC. She loves a good film, noisy rock and green tea ice cream.
Maryam Nazir is a third-year undergraduate majoring in Philosophy. She is interested in taking advantage of philosophical principles and frameworks to help understand, research, and analyze issues of BioEthics and race disparities as they are revealed through the pandemic.