Join us for five true, personal stories about sudden and dramatic changes in science!
Hosted by Christine Gentry and Paula Croxson. Doors at 6:30pm.
Stories by…
Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian, writer, and host of the comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke with iHeart and Pretty Good Friends. She also hosted NPR’s Ask Me Another, where she interviewed hundreds of celebrities. She’s appeared on CBS’s The Late Late Show, Comedy Central, HBO, The New York Festival, and The Moth Radio Hour. Her stories are included in three of The Moth’s best-selling collections. Her memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, was optioned for a TV series, and her recent comedy special Plant-Based Jokes is streaming on YouTube. She is a regular at The Comedy Cellar and other New York clubs, and her solo show Leaving A Mark: A Comedy About Scars made its Off-Broadway debut to rave reviews and won the Women in the Arts & Media Award for Solo Show Scripts.
Dionne C. Monsanto is a bestselling author, speaker, and holistic wellness coach who creates space for her clients to realize their goals and build better versions of themselves. As the Chief Joy Connector and founder of Joyous Ocean, she’s taught thousands of yoga/dance classes and appeared on TV, radio, and in print, including features on CBS, PBS, NPR, and Essence and Time magazines. Dionne has inspired communities and clients all over the world to right-size their bodes and live life INjoy. She sits on the National Chapter Leadership Council for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and actively volunteers with her local chapter. Dionne is a native New Yorker and global citizen who loves cooking, music, and laughter, all of which she sees as moving meditations.
Shawn Musgrave is a lawyer, journalist, lawyer-who-represents-journalists, and recent transplant to New York. His work has appeared in POLITICO, The Verge, VICE, The Intercept, and the Boston Globe, among other publications, as well as in the Netflix docuseries How to Fix a Drug Scandal.
Rajyashree Sen is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. She holds a PhD in neuroscience and molecular biology from the University of Vienna and a masters degree in Biotechnology from the University of Hyderabad. As a graduate student, Dr. Sen’s research focused on a set of neurons, dubbed the moonwalker neurons, that constitute the key pathway for backward walking in flies. Her work has been tweeted by MC Hammer. Dr. Sen is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Axel, where she investigates the neuronal basis of social memories in mice. When she is not in the lab, she does improv comedy. While science has taken her to interesting places in interesting brains, improv has taken her to the moon, hell, back, and beyond.
Nat Towsen is a comedian and nonfiction writer from Manhattan, New York. He has written for Esquire, Vice, CollegeHumor, and The Onion. He also works at Botnik Studios, using AI to write comedy. In pre-pandemic times, he toured the country and abroad to perform standup and work with cultural programs, teaching about comedy as a tool in activism and for addressing mental health.