Leadership: Stories about responsibility
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who had to become leaders whether they liked it or not.
Part 1: Eager to show off their new job testing water quality, Prof.Ound takes their friends out on a boat for the first time.
Prof.Ound is a Bronx-born and raised spoken word artist, actor, writer, educator and environmentalist. Prof.Ound’s creative work is notable for its Afrocentric emphasis on audience participation and conveying moral/ethical lessons. Merging these aesthetic values into their ecological restoration work and background, Prof.Ound has been developing and workshopping a culturally responsive arts-based outdoor education pedagogy. Prof.Ound strives to ensure the full participation and autonomous leadership of marginalized communities in environmental movements.
Note from the Artistic Director: When this episode originally ran, it featured a second story, from neuroscientist and MeToo STEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin. In light of reports about this individual's conduct, we have chosen to remove her story from this episode.
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| 0:28.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.9 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:33.7 | I felt... |
| 0:34.5 | I felt... |
| 0:34.5 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.7 | I figured it out. It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:42.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:57.0 | I am your host, Erin Barker, and this week we are sadly without Liz Neely again as she gallivance around California. |
| 1:05.0 | But regardless, this week we're presenting stories about leadership. |
| 1:22.5 | So our storytellers today will be sharing stories of times when they maybe struggled to be the leader that they wanted to be, or they were thrust into a position of leadership that they weren't ready for. |
| 1:31.7 | For me, I think this moment came when I became an instructor for an after-school storytelling program at a high school. |
| 1:37.3 | One of my students on the first day asked me permission to go to the bathroom. |
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