In this conversation, educator, artist, and technologist Chris Carruth and Ph.D. candidate Kristina M. Stamatis discuss pedagogy, empathy, and structural racism in higher ed.

Chris Carruth is an educator, artist, and technologist who is currently splitting teaching/making engagements between Boulder, CO and Vancouver, BC. He is an interdisciplinary creative artist who weaves philosophical inquiry, investigative journalism, and personal narrative together to examine life in the digital age.

Kristina M. Stamatis is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on the ways that cultural storytelling can support teaching and learning and the disruption of whiteness. Her latest work can be found in the book Compose Our World: Engaging Educators and Students with Project-Based Learning in Secondary English Language Arts.