This podcast recapitulates some of the memorable moments of the transdisciplinary and engaging event, together with speaker Fereshteh Forough (founder and CEO, Code to Inspire) and participant Christian Brown (founder and CEO, Blimish) of the symposium. In three episodes, listeners are taken back to the core issues of social justice and technology discussed at the symposium, and hear the personal stories of Fereshteh Forough and Christian Brown. Forough is an advocate for girls' and women's right to education and founded the first computer coding school for women in Afghanistan. Brown is a champion for mental wellbeing and has launched the Blimish app to make wellness more accessible to regular people. You can access the podcast episodes for free via YouTube here.
This podcast was produced by Sonja Pfisterer within the project module of the Masters in Literary and Cultural Theory at the University of Tübingen. Sonja is a student of Literary and Cultural Theory as well as Philosophy. She works as a research assistant at the IZEW and was involved in the planning and organization of the symposium.