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How do you craft an emotional story while translating very technical and abstract information? Drawing from raw tape of interviews with scientists, Jad Abumrad, MacArthur Fellow, composer, journalist, and creator of Radiolab, focuses on the inherent struggles in science communication (or interpreting any technical or difficult information) – what happens when you get it wrong, how to fix it, and how it’s useful to embrace error in the process.
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THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE 2022 CLEVELAND HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: DISCOURSE.
About the speaker:
Jad Abumrad is the creator of , a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast. The show is co-hosted by Lulu Miller, and Latif Nasser. Abumrad also hosts on Apple Music Hits. Each episode offers a kaleidoscopic mix of uptempo, electro, dance, funk, hip-hop, experimental noise, soul, and everything in between.
Abumrad employs his dual backgrounds as composer and journalist to create what’s been called “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. He orchestrates dialogue, music, interviews and sounds into compelling documentaries that draw listeners into investigations of otherwise intimidating topics, such as the nature of numbers, the evolution of altruism, or the legal foundation for the war on terror.
He’s won three , and in 2011 Abumrad was honored as a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the Genius Grant). The MacArthur Foundation website says: “Abumrad is inspiring boundless curiosity within a new generation of listeners and experimenting with sound to find ever more effective and entertaining ways to explain ideas and tell a story.”
Jad also created and hosted three seasons of , a series about untold stories of the Supreme Court, which The New York Times called “...possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.” And in 2019, Jad Abumrad created (along with osm Audio’s Shima Oliaee) a 9-part series that explores a divided America through the life and music of one its greatest icons.
Click to visit Jad Abumrad's website.
Click to read Jad Abumrad's recent letter about stepping away from Radiolab.
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