Leah M. Friedman, a doctoral student in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (HSD) program in the College of Global Futures, has been awarded a Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship by Imagining America.
PAGE is Imagining America’s (IA) network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production. The PAGE consortium, made up of alumni and allies of the program, promotes opportunities for mentorship and peer support from IA’s network. This fellowship is awarded to graduate students with a strong commitment to community-driven research engagement in the context of re-imagining how American institutions can be oriented to freedom and justice
"To me, community engagement is one of the most valuable pillars of my work on data autonomy," says Friedman. "Having my work recognized in this way is not only important motivation to push onward but also brings me into conversation with a network of seven other peers who are doing the important work of re-imagining our world.
"The organization has an emphasis on public engagement, and I'm really looking forward to using this fellowship to advance the ways that I disseminate my work and the work of my community collaborators to the public. Finding like-minded peers is so important for getting through any PhD program and I'm so excited to be joining this sharp and creative group!" Friedman says.
Friedman offers the following acknowledgments:
I really want to thank my advisor, Dr. Alexandrina Agloro, for encouraging me to apply for the PAGE fellowship - she was a fellow while in graduate school and receiving this fellowship feels like a lovely nod to academic lineage. I'm also very grateful to Dr. Dave Guston as well as Deans Jeffrey Cohen (CLAS – Humanities) and Renee Cheng (HIDA), all of whom mobilized to make ASU an IA member institution and enabled me to apply for the PAGE fellowship.