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Teachings and Invited Talks (Selected)

Spring 2021

2025

Co-facilitator, Burroughs Welcome Fund

Workshop on strategic science communictaion

2024 - 25

Workshop facilitator and designer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Workshops on SciComm strategizing and building trust with audiences. 

2024 - 25

Workshop facilitator and speaker, National Geographic Society

Workshops on storytelling for Explorers and the Manila-based Mind Museum. Speaker on the science of SciComm at the NatGeo Storytelling Summit and the Explorer Fest

2021 - Present

Workshop facilitator, panelist & mentor, NEWF

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

2020 - 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. 

2023

Workshop facilitator, Metcalf Instutute SCIP Program

Workshop on storytelling

2023

Keynote speaker, ECC Engineering Communicators Conference

Talk focuse don teh social science behind communictaion best practices.

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

Conversation moderator with Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, JFK Library Forum

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

Panelist, MIT COMM

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.

Community Organizing (Selected)

2025 - Present

Story Craft: The Stories We Tell and The Science Behind It

A National Geographic grant in collaboration with SciComm Lab. Building a community of scientists, communicators, and social scientists to exchange skills.

2021 - Present

Advisory Council - Jackson Wild

Advisory member offering feedback on initiatives to increase the accessibility of the Jackson Wild programs. 

2021 - 2024

Advisory Committee, AAAS - DoSER

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

2020 - 2022

DEI co-chair, ComSciCon

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

2019 - 2022

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

Copywriter, Science Ninja board game

2013 - 2015

Grief facilitator, Fars Hospice

2013 - 2016

Copywriter, WorldWriters

2012 - 2013

Copywriter and creative producer, Magnolia Advertising Agency

2008 - 2014

farsi interpreter/assistant to NYT, WSJ, Spiegel, Stern, ARTE

2006 - 2007

Physiotherapist, Tehran pediatric Medical Center

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