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🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Nassim moved to the U.S. as a graduate student in 2003. Throughout her doctoral education, and after teaching a variety of humanities subjects, she noticed a gap in terms of teaching multiculturalism in academia. So, she co-founded Docademia, a social enterprise which brings unrepresented voices- those most often ignored or misrepresented in dominant media narratives- into classrooms.

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0:00.0	Fire Nation into house JLD here and welcome episode 1571 of EO Fire. Right chat with today's
0:10.3	most successful entrepreneur, seven days a week. Knock over that domino fire nation. Start
0:16.6	your chain reaction of awesome with the freedom journal dot com. Now let's chat with today's
0:22.8	featured guest, Nassim Abdi. Nassim, are you prepared to ignite? Yes, of course. Yes. Nassim moved
0:31.7	to the U.S. as a graduate student back in 2003 throughout her doctoral education and after teaching
0:38.0	in a variety of humanity subjects, she noticed a gap in terms of the teaching multiculturalism
0:44.0	and academia. So she co-founded Dachademia, a social enterprise which brings unrepresented voices,
0:51.9	those most often ignored or misrepresented in dominant media narratives into classrooms.
0:57.6	Nassim, take a minute. Fill in the gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse of your
1:02.0	personal life. Sure. Thank you for talking with me and it's very exciting to be here. I live with a
1:09.2	wonderful man who is my best friend, husband and the father of my two little boys. I have a three
1:15.4	and a half and 18 months old boys, which they changed my life, brought me unlimited joy and
1:21.6	they bring me unlimited joy every day and they are handful. You're tremendously lucky. I
1:29.8	thought you're going to say unlimited joy and unlimited frustration. Well, they are
1:36.3	handful. Of course. That's the age that they don't step through the night and all those stuff,
1:41.3	but you're very lucky to have support of two lovely grandmas and an incredible grandpa in our life.
1:47.7	That's another part of this whole package. In 2004, I was teaching a course to a group of
1:56.2	humanity students in the Midwest. They had a session about war and peace. I grew up in Iran
2:02.9	during eight and eight years of brutal war between Iran and Iraq. I had first an experience about
2:09.2	war. When I was teaching this session, I noticed that my students don't connect with this concept as
2:16.3	I do because of my own experience and their experiences comes from TV reports on war.
2:25.2	That bothered me. I tried as a teacher to find a way to help this experience to change.
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