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If you’re working to build and support a healthier and more just society, how can I work with you? If you want your good ideas and your good works to achieve greater impact, let me help you tap the unique power of narrative.
Check out my bio – teaching, acting, screenwriting, music and film producing, facilitating retreats and planning, interviews, full circle to teaching through speeches and workshops. After 15 years of radio interviews with visionary thinkers and doers, I now produce and host a monthly podcast for Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
And I draw on all those experiences to help individuals and organizations develop more engaging narratives and tell more compelling human stories. Listen here.
Explore, listen, read…then let’s connect to imagine together how we might work to make things better.
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DISRUPTIVE: RAPID, LOW-COST PAPER-BASED TEST FOR ZIKA
In just six weeks, a team led by James Collins of Harvard’s Wyss Institute developed a rapid, freeze-dried, paper-based diagnostic system for the Zika virus. The core of the test is a piece of paper that changes color in the presence of Zika. University of Toronto biochemist Keith Pardee says it should cost less than a dollar per test. In this 53-minute podcast, we explore how they did it and what they learned.Episode#6 of my podcast with Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
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- Tap the Unique Power of Story and Narrative
In this podcast, I go solo. Rather than interviewing others, I share with you the best of the work I do to help organizations develop more engaging narratives and tell better stories. Learn why narrative is uniquely powerful as well as the recipe for a good story – whether in a Hollywood screenplay or a one-to-one conversation.
- Disruptive#6: Rapid, Low-cost, Paper-based Test for Zika
In early May, a rapid, low-cost, freeze-dried, paper-based, strain-specific diagnostic system for detection of the Zika virus was introduced by an international team of researchers led by James Collins of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The core of the test kit is a piece of paper that changes color in the presence of Zika virus RNA and produces results in two to three hours. University of Toronto biochemist Keith Pardee says that it should cost less than a dollar per test. And, according to Collins, in response to a new outbreak, a custom tailored diagnostic system could be ready for use within one week’s time.In this 53-minute podcast, I speak with Collins and Pardee, and explore how they did it, what they learned, and what this might mean for the future. Listen and subscribe to Disruptive on Soundcloud, iTunes, or Google Play.Disruptive #7 Transcript
- Disruptive #5: Molecular Robotics – Building with DNA
DISRUPTIVE – the podcast from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
We’re learning to take advantage of properties of DNA that have served nature well- but in ways nature may have never pursued. We build with it. We tap its capacity to carry information to enhance our ability to explore the inner life of cells.
In this episode, Wyss faculty members William Shih, Wesley Wong and Peng Yin share what it’s like being on the frontier of science, explain how and why they program DNA, and consider potential applications of their work.
Disruptive: Molecular Robotics transcript
