Don't Pretend We're Dead Podcast
Don't Pretend We're Dead Podcast
Podcast Description
For each episode of the Don’t Pretend We’re Dead podcast, I’ll be talking with women doing interesting work right now in the fields of advocacy, arts and culture, food, science and technology. Ladies who give me a shred of hope in these dark times—and who doesn’t need more of that? Subscribe for free to learn about new episodes. corinazappia.substack.com
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The podcast focuses on a wide range of themes such as cultural advocacy, culinary innovation, and the intersection of social issues with professional disciplines. Specific episode topics include Caribbean cuisine with chef Marie Mitchell, discussing cultural identity through food, and humanitarian advocacy featuring Ruth Mukwana, highlighting women's empowerment in crisis narratives.

For each episode of the Don’t Pretend We’re Dead podcast, I’ll be talking with women doing really cool work right now in the fields of advocacy, arts and culture, food, science and technology. Let’s meet them together. Subscribe for free.
On this episode: What is it like to search for 14-foot-long Burmese pythons in the Everglades? What is it like to wrestle with sea turtles in the water? And what exactly is a “snake bro”? I talk with herpetologists Dr. Hayley Crowell and Dr. Leonard Jones about common snake misconceptions, hypermasculinity in snake-expert world, and Hayley’s advice to women who want to work in the male-dominated field of herpetology..
For each episode of the Don’t Pretend We’re Dead podcast, I’ll be talking with women doing cool work right now in the fields of advocacy, arts, culture, food, journalism, science and technology. Let’s meet them together. Subscribe for free to learn about new episodes.
About Dr. Hayley Crowell
Dr. Hayley Crowell is an evolutionary ecophysiologist interested in the secret world of animal coloration. The majority of her work focuses on large-scale patterns and physiological consequences of “hidden colors” (i.e., UV and NIR) in snakes and lizards (see her article about this in Nature). She is currently a lecturer and researcher at the University of Michigan’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.
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