Making and Diversity: A Podcast and Video Series Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies

In this month’s episode, we talk with Jasmine Cho, a Pittsburgh-based artist, author, and cookie activist most known for using portrait cookies that elevate representation for Asian Pacific Americans. She is also a Food Network Christmas Cookie Challenge Champion and the Founder of Yummyholic. Her cookie activism has been featured internationally on various media outlets that include NPR, The Huffington Post, CBS, and The Korea Daily. We talk with Jasmine about her path to becoming a cookie activist, her dream of building a 1000 healing kitchens, Pittsburgh’s “Jasmine Cho Day,” among many interesting and thought provoking topics.
 
The transcript for this episode can be found at the MakeYourStory website.

In this month’s episode, we talk with the audio-visual art collaborators, Esteban Garcia Bravo and Aaron Zernack. Esteban is an associate professor at Purdue in the Computer Graphics Technology program and Aaron is the owner of the graphic design business, Mine-us. They share with us how the local art and music scene has influenced and supported their work, the open source software they use and their processes for programming and coding data to create their art.
The transcript for this episode can be found at the MakeYourStory website.

In this episode, we talk with Kadari Taylor Watson. Kadari is a Material Culture Historian and a Ph. D candidate in American Studies at Purdue. She specializes in Politics of Race, Gender, & Beauty, Healing as Craft, Apparel Design & Technology. She shares stories with us about the power of African print fabrics, the scholarship she is creating to share her knowledge and the African American printed fabric she is designing.
The transcript for this episode can be found at the MakeYourStory website.

In this episode, we talk with DG House, a Native American contemporary artist. DG works across a variety of media, including painting, photography and printmaking. As a successful artist with many stories and much wisdom to share, a few of the many topics we cover include her process, the importance of land acknowledgement and the places where making and art meet.
 
The transcript for this episode can be found at the MakeYourStory website.

In this episode, we talk with Kristina Mok from Makers Making Change. The mission of the organization is to "achieve economic and social inclusiveness for all people with disabilities." The organization achieves this mission through community based Makers, Occupational Therapists and Volunteers to develop and deliver affordable open source assistive technologies. We discuss the Maker volunteer and client relationship and the assistive device open source library. We also discuss how Boilermakers can start their own chapter of Makers Making Change in Indiana.
 
The transcript for this episode can be found at the MakeYourStory website.

In our first episode of "Making and Diversity: A Podcast and Video" series we talk with Purdue alumni Dr. Avneet Hira about her path into Making and the ways in which Making is unique from engineering design practices. Making is a physical recording of your creative process. Making is about exploring ideas and then proving they work. In the time of Covid, Making has shown its true potential as a process of self-discovery, a community with which to connect, even if physical spaces are temporarily not available, and a means to make the world a better place.
The transcript for this episode can be found at the MakeYourStory website.