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LeVar Burton is an actor, producer, director, writer, podcaster, and education advocate. In this segment of WHATRYADOIN’, LeVar shares with us his thoughts on representation in fiction, his memories of his friend and fellow advocate Fred Rogers, and why the Holodeck will one day be realized.
For more information about LeVar and everything he’s doing, check out his website here.
Links to all the authors LeVar mentions in this segment:
Octavia Butler
Samuel R. Delaney
Nnedi Okorafor – Her Binti Series can be found here.
Ken Liu
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Cat Rambo
Amal El-Mohtar
Isaac Asimov – you can find his Foundation Trilogy here.
Extra music for this episode was provided by The Twin Atlas under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-a-Like 3.0 United States License. You can find out more about them and their music at their official website.
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LeVar Burton is an actor, producer, director, writer, podcaster, and education advocate. In this segment of WHATRYADOIN’, LeVar shares with us his thoughts on representation in fiction, his memories of his friend and fellow advocate Fred Rogers, and why the Holodeck will one day be realized.
For more information about LeVar and everything he’s doing, check out his website here.
Links to all the authors LeVar mentions in this segment:
Octavia Butler
Samuel R. Delaney
Nnedi Okorafor – Her Binti Series can be found here.
Ken Liu
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Cat Rambo
Amal El-Mohtar
Isaac Asimov – you can find his Foundation Trilogy here.
Extra music for this episode was provided by The Twin Atlas under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-a-Like 3.0 United States License. You can find out more about them and their music at their official website.

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