What happens when science catches us off guard, or life throws a twist we never saw coming? Come find out as five incredible storytellers share moments that surprise, challenge, and stick with you. Joins us on November 20 for a night of true, personal stories about science at QED Astoria.
Hosted by Julio Chavez and Gastor Almonte.
Doors open at 7 pm, show starts at 7:30 pm.
Stories by:
Nonye Brown-West is a New York-based Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe's Rise column as a Comic to Watch, as well as in NPR, PBS, Amazon Prime, Sway In The Morning, and the New York Comedy Festival.
Hamdan Azhar is a data scientist, writer, and storyteller from Brooklyn, New York. He has performed at The Moth, TEDx, and the ARTICHOKE Storytelling Festival. His essays on technology and culture have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, WIRED, VICE, and Forbes. Hamdan is the founder of the Muslim Writers Collective, a grassroots community that fosters space for diverse voices to share their stories. An early data scientist at Facebook, BlackRock, and Cash App, he is also the co-inventor of emoji machine learning. He holds a BS in economics from Penn State, an MS in biostatistics from the University of Michigan, and spent one year in the PhD program in neuroscience at the University of Chicago.
Casey James Salengo is an NYC based comedian who’s been featured on Comedy Central Presents, Jimmy Kimmel Live, This Week at the Cellar, and HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. His debut album “Wild Country Phoenix” is available on Spotify and his full length special “Welcome to the Jungle” is available on YouTube. He also has a podcast with his gorgeous wife Courtney Maginnis called “I Love You… But Your Music Sucks.”
Lillian Kreppel is the CEO and Co-Founder of HPV Cancers Alliance, a non-profit organization she founded alongside actress Marcia Cross following her own diagnosis with stage II anal cancer, an HPV-related disease. Born and raised in New York, Lillian has transformed her personal experience into a powerful mission to raise awareness, obliterate stigma, and ensure that no one loses their life to HPV-related cancers.