Episode 10: Dr. Mays Imad
Making ourselves whole
"...we had moment of awakening... and I am learning that is not easy, it takes time and persistence... community..."
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More About Today's Guest:
Mays Imad received her undergraduate training from the University of Michigan–Dearborn where she studied philosophy. She received her doctoral degree in Cellular & Clinical Neurobiology from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She then completed a National Institute of Health-Funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona in the Department of Neuroscience. She joined the department of life & physical sciences at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona as an adjunct faculty member in 2009 and later as a full-time faculty member in 2013. During her tenure at Pima, she taught Physiology, Pathophysiology, Genetics, Biotechnology, and Biomedical ethics. She also founded Pima’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). She is currently teaching in the biology department at Connecticut College as an associate professor.
This week, in our final episode of Season 1, Dr. Mays Imad shared with us her journey from Baghdad, Iraq to Connecticut College and her internationally renowned work on trauma informed education. She implores us to think of education as opportunities for healing and growth, such that both our students and us can become more whole from the experience.
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How could the cultural changes in today's day reflect to what we put in our CV compared to previous years?
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How would the political environment impact the ways in which aid to immigrant and minoritized students are perceived?'
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What are some visions in education that knowledge unbound are trying to promote?
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