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TEACHINGS AND INVITED TALKS (SELECTED)

Spring 2021

2023

Keynote speaker, ECC Engineering Communicators Conference

Talk focuse don teh social science behind communictaion best practices.

2023

Lecturer, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Lecture on "Science-related Misinformation: Why We Resist Information and What To Do About It."

2021-23

Workshop facilitator & mentor, Jackson Wild Media Lab

How to build trust with our audience in media. based on examples of shows and films in science doc. 

2021-23

Workshop facilitator & mentor, NEWF

Facilitating workshops on trust, vulnurability, and narrative transportation for the NEWF filmmaking community across Africa.

2023

Workshop facilitator, Metcalf Instutute SCIP Program

Workshop on storytelling

2022

Workshop Facilitator, Kavli Foundation

Workshop on building trust and being vulnurable as scientists.

2022

Workshop Facilitator, Generation180's Climate Comedy Cohort

Workshop on changing attitude and behavior in science communictaion

2021

Speaker, PBS

PBS Editorial Standards Webinar: Fairness, Not False Equivalence

2021

Workshop facilitator, Science Talk

2020

Workshop facilitator, Hubbard Brook Foundation

Empathy in science communication especially as it relates to controversial science topics for the Young Voices of Science program.

2020-22

Panel producer and moderator, Jackson Wild Summit

2020

Workshop facilitator, Social Impact Writers Lab

Social Impact Writers Lab is a weekend that connects creators with experts to develop powerful pitches of social impact narratives. This workshop was focused on empathy in SciComm and writing characters as warm and trustworthy scientists.

2020

Workshop facilitator, UNC-Chapel Hill

Facilitating an interactive workshop in developing empathy skills as scientists.

2019 - 20

Workshop facilitator, ComSciCon National

Facilitating an interactive workshop in developing empathy skills as scientists.

2019

Instructor, Northwestern University

A Compassionate Scientist’s Toolkit: A research credit course for an undergraduate student.

2019

Storyteller, The Storycollider Podcast

A story about a new planet, an immigrant, and breaking a car with one’s knee.

2018-19

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University

TA for the Media, Communication, and Environment course, undergraduate level and for video editing course as a part of the Research Communication Training. TA for the Health Communication course, undergraduate level.

2016 - 2019

Workshop facilitator, Adler Planetarium

Quarterly workshops, teaching science communication and storytelling to speakers of the Adler Planetarium's Space Visualization Lab.

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AND LEADERSHIP (SELECTED)

2021 - Present

Advisory Committee, AAAS - DoSER

Advisory member offering guidance on strategies to connect with diverse religious communities for science outreach.

2021 - Present

Advisory Council, Jackson Wild

Advisory member offering feedback on initiatives to increase diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility of the Jackson Wild programs. 

2020 - 2022

DEI co-chair, ComSciCon

Developing and organizing a support team for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

2019 - Present

Producer, The Story Collider

“Story Collider is a non-profit dedicated to true, personal stories about science.”

2016 - 2020

Chair and organizer, ComSciCon

A workshop series for graduate students, focused on science communication skills. I have been involved with the Chicago flagship as chair and organizer and with the national workshop as organizer.

2018 - 2020

Founder and facilitator, Tea and Talk

Mental health support group for grad students at the school of communication.

2012 - 2015

Project manager, SEPAS NGO

Managed and proposed the cancer prevention and palliative care campaign, renewal of Fars hospice’s meditation room, and medical-info translation team.

2012 - 2015

Project manager, Imam Ali NGO

Managing new volunteers for the play/art therapy sessions at children hospitals.

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SKILLS

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ADOBE PREMIERE 
ADOBE AFTER EFFECT
AUDITION AUDITION
ADOBE FRESCO MOTION

HTML
CSS

FARSI (NATIVE)
ENGLISH (FLUENT)
GERMAN (INTERMEDIATE)
ARABIC (ELEMENTARY)

SPSS 
R
ATLAS.TI
DEDOOSE

OTHER EXPERIENCES

Summer 2017

COPY WRITER, SCIENCE NINJA BOARDGAME

2013 - 2015

GRIEF FACILITATOR, FARS HOSPICE

2013 - 2016

COPY WRITER, WORLD WRITERS

2012 - 2013

COPY WRITER, CREATIVE PRODUCER, MAGNOLIA ADVERTISING AGENCY

2008 - 2014

FARSI INTERPRETER/ASSISTANT, NYT, WSJ, SPIEGEL, STERN, ARTE

2006 - 2007

PHYSIOTHERAPIST, TEHRAN'S PEDIATRIC MEDICAL CENTER

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