{"675899":{"#nid":"675899","#data":{"type":"event","title":"WST Lrn C dinner discussion about graduate school with Alexandra Riggs and Dr. Anne Pollock, King\u0027s College, London","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWST graduate partner Alexandra Riggs and Dr. Anne Pollock \u003C\/strong\u003Ewill offer advice about applying to and attending graduate school for WST Learning Community students. Dinner will be included.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra (Allie) Riggs\u003C\/strong\u003E is a design researcher, product designer and PhD student in Digital Media, currently at Georgia Tech. Before academia, she worked as a UX Lead at Fantasy, and before that, at\u0026nbsp;Code and Theory. She also studied Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz, where she created narrative games, hypertext poems, and interactive theater performances. Her current PhD work is at the intersection of Queer Human Computer Interaction (HCI), queer theory, critical archives, and tangible embodied interaction design. She focuses on how we might\u0026nbsp;queer technology design through attention to historicism and affective, embodied experiences.\u0026nbsp; In her industry experience design work, she adopts a collaborative and strategic approach, partnering across disciplines to achieve carefully considered, intuitive experiences that span a diverse range of organizations and technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnne Pollock\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King\u2019s College London, where she currently serves as Head of Department. She is also President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), and an editor at the journal \u003Cem\u003EBioSocieties\u003C\/em\u003E. She received her BA in Sociology with a Certificate in Women\u2019s Studies at Brandeis University, and her PhD in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology from MIT. Before moving to the UK in 2018, she spent a decade on the faculty of the Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. Broadly, her research explores feminist, antiracist, and postcolonial engagements with science, technology, and medicine.\u0026nbsp;She is the author of three books: \u003Cem\u003EMedicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference\u003C\/em\u003E (Duke 2012), \u003Cem\u003ESynthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery \u003C\/em\u003E(Chicago 2019), and \u003Cem\u003ESickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States\u003C\/em\u003E (Minnesota 2021), and is engaged in multiple ongoing projects that build from these, on feminist theory and the heart, social studies of pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, and race and the biohumanities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWST graduate partner Alexandra Riggs (Digital Media\/LMC) and Dr. Anne Pollock (King\u0027s College, London) will offer advice about applying to and attending graduate school for WST Learning Community students. Dinner will be included.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"WST graduate partner Alexandra Riggs and Dr. Anne Pollock will offer advice about applying to and attending graduate school."}],"uid":"27680","created_gmt":"2024-08-12 13:32:15","changed_gmt":"2024-10-15 20:29:08","author":"Carol Colatrella","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-10-28T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2024-10-28T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-10-28T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-10-28 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-10-28 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-10-28 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Stein study lounge","extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"132371","name":"The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"193902","name":"graduate education, design, digital media"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarol Colatrella \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecarol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}