Sophia Yan and Shaun Karakkattu co-hosted a special episode as a part of the Vanderbilt Buchanan Fellowship on the phenomenon of widespread misinformation among the immigrant communities on social media platforms and ways to combat non-English misinformation.

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Riya Goel and Aria Young, teen advisors at the United Nations Foundation: Girl Up and founders of Asianslead about the current climate in the United States during the coronavirus and BLM protests.

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu asked Siddharth Satish and Arushi Bagchi, founders of Rememoirs about the structure and mission of their organization. Rememoirs is an nonprofit organization dedicated to helping seniors at local facilities with Alzheimer's and Dementia.  

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses senior projects with Rashi Magiyawala who conducted research about taking the fair out of lovely: colorism in South Asian beauty, and Maxfield Hohn who conducted research about reviving anthropology in the modern museum.  Maxfield talked about the development of the TA program at BASIS Mesa, and Rashi discussed the start of her fashion club. Rashi will be attending ASU in the fall, and Maxfield will be attending USC.

Youthomatic Season 2 premiers in June of 2020.

In this bonus episode for the New York Times podcast contest, Shaun Karakkattu introduced Brecker Ferguson’s project about evaluating cross-cultural valuations of lions, Sara Kandel’s project about putting a period on South Asian menstrual stigma, Rashi Magiyawala’s project about taking the fair out of lovely: colorism in South Asian beauty, and Maxfield Hohn’s project about reviving anthropology in the modern museum. Thank you to all the guests who helped with the first season of Youthomatic, and a new season will be out in the summer of 2020.

Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Caeley Looney, Editor and Chief of Reinvented Magazine and Zhao Gu Gammage, staff writer at Reinvented Magazine about their experiences as women in STEM. The discussion travels from a high robotics club all the way to interning at NASA.