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Dr. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University is our latest exciting guest. She is currently a K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering, and with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She was the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018-2022. She currently has close to 700 referenced publications and more than 80 US patents with a Google Scholar H-index 198.

In the latest episode, we interviewed Caroline Fox, MD, MPH, the Senior Vice President of Genetics and Target Discovery at a Flagship Pioneering start-up company. There, she leads a group applying a novel method of genomics to identify drug targets. Prior to that, she was Vice President and Head of Genome and Biomarker Sciences at Merck Research Labs (MRL), where she lead a group of nearly 150 scientists to leverage genetics and biomarker science to drive drug discovery and development across the R&D pipeline.

In the latest episode, we interviewed Valerie Smith, the current president of Eli's college, Swarthmore College.  She has a very impressive career in which she has served as a professor, academic administrator and  a distinguished scholar of African American literature.

For our latest episode, we interviewed Dr. Marilyn Waring, a prominent New Zealand economist and feminist, and a leading activist for women’s human rights.  Dr. Waring was one of the youngest New Zealanders ever elected to Parliament, serving as a National MP between 1975 and 1984. She was just 23 when she entered Parliament and from 1978 to 1981 she was the only woman in the National caucus.   After leaving politics she wrote her famous book “If Women Counted”.  Due to her writings and research she is known as being the principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics.  Since 2006, Dr. Waring has been a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in Auckland.  During this time she has focused on public policy and governance, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights.

Our latest guest is Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, an urban anthropologist and lecturer from Philadelphia.  She co-founded the “The Women Led Cities Initiative” which aims to bring women's voices to the forefront of urban planning and design. In 2019 she was named to the “BBC’s 100 Women of 2019”, an annual listing of the most inspiring and influential women from around the world.  She has served as a lecturer at Drexel University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.  With this episode we tried something new, we conducted our interview on the streets of Philadelphia in Johnston-Zimmerman’s neighborhood, it was a great way to talk to her and learn more about urban anthropology.  It was a really fun way to do the interview and we really enjoyed our conversation.

Our guest for today is Christina Koch, a record setting astronaut who recently completed the longest mission in space for a woman. In addition she was part of the first ever all-female spacewalk. We were very excited to talk with Ms. Koch and her interview did not disappoint us, her stories were interesting, inspiring and entertaining. We hope you enjoy our conversation with her as much as we did.