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Take Back What the Devil Stole

December 12, 2020 By meerasub Leave a Comment

Life leads you, one thing to another, one project to another, one person to another.

While I was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT in 2016, I took a photography class with B.D. Colen. I was trying to hone a lifelong passion of taking photographs into something more skilled than just setting the aperture. He pushed us to take brazen photos of strangers on the street, and create a 24-hour time capsule of our lives (the only photos we would be able to look at for the rest of our lives when we were shot into space). We had to get dozens of good shots with the restriction that our subject and our own feet could not move at all once planted (thanks, Lauren Whaley!). He had us document the 2016 presidential election as it unfolded, imploded, and he documented me the morning after the election, when we bagged classwork to watch Hillary Clinton’s concession speech (remember those?) during class. [Read more…]

Filed Under: photography Tagged With: Donna Haskins, Knight Science Journalism, MIT, Onaje X. O. Woodbine, photography, religion, video

Battling & Reporting on Climate Change event: Boston

October 17, 2018 By meerasub Leave a Comment

If you happen to be in Boston on Oct. 24th (6pm – 8 pm), join Tom Zeller, Jr, Editor in Chief of Undark magazine, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon, and me as we discuss studying and covering climate change. It’s part of the Inside Media, Politics and Policy series of Northeastern University’s Myra Kraft Open Classroom. Here’s a link, and more:

You can watch the event here:

Filed Under: climate change, events, InsideClimate News Tagged With: MIT, Northeastern University, Susan Solomon, Tom Zeller, Undark

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