Episode 103: Aadita Chaudhury, Doctoral Student, Science and Technology Studies, York University

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This week, the conversation is a candid one about breaking out of the mould shaped by a professional program into an interdisciplinary community. Aadita Chaudhury, doctoral student, tells her story of her journey to realizing that technology can be a tool for liberation, and how she's using the tools and skills she learned in industry to break down prescriptive ways of knowing and critically examine STEM-exceptionalist narratives. Plus, she gives practical advice on how new STEM professionals can begin to change the world for the better.

Aadita Chaudhury is a doctoral student in the Science and Technology Studies at York University. Her doctoral dissertation project explores the multifaceted cultural, material and environmental meaning-making, building on her ethnographic research on fire ecology and wildfire management in California. Her research further investigates the practices surrounding both ecosystem and built environment fires around the world to situate how themes of coloniality, valuation and race emerge in the context of fire management.

For full shownotes, transcription, and land acknowledgement visit http://i.sfu.ca/LFJUzu

Relevant Links:

• Aadita's website
• Aadita on LinkedIn
• Aadita's publications
• Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
• Sonic Street Technologies: Culture, Diaspora and Knowledge

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