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I guess I am going to be busy…you’re right. That’s like my real gig, and then I teach two courses for Ohio State as an adjunct (professor). Sara: Yeah, and then I have my regular fulltime job as an administrator for a women’s policy office (The Woman’s Place). Then, I am consulting on a program here in Columbus (Ohio) called “Mom’s to Be”, and they are looking at the impact of the program on infant mortality and maternal outcomes.ĭan: It sounds like you are going to have a busy year. I’m consulting on a project that is focused on first-responders, that respond to an opioid overdose. Then, I am consulting on a couple projects. They don’t have much online to begin with, so this is a new arena for them. That was a big thing for Ohio State because they have never put a qualitative research course online. I designed an online research course for Ohio State, and I’m teaching it for the first time next semester. Sara: (Laughs) I don’t really have any new projects. Well, do you have any new projects for 2019? We read a mix of books, but it is all academic.ĭan: Cool.
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And we made our way up to Roxane Gay’s book over the summer. We started reading old, well not that old, but feminist works that were foundational. Sara: I have some friends, and we meet online for a book group, and this is one of the books we read. It’s really good, but you have to be in the mood for it.ĭan: Were you reading that more for pleasure? Or professionally? Or a mixture? I don’t think anyone has written about those things in the way she has. It’s a very visceral, deep, emotional book. It’s called Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, so she writes about the connection between her trauma and her body. It’s kind of a depressing book, but she is the survivor of sexual assault, as a child, and then she has had issues with her weight her whole life. The best thing read was Hunger by Roxane Gay. Sara: (Laughs) What have I read? I’m looking at my bookshelf. Dan Conn, AATC Executive Council Memberĭan: What was the best thing you read in 2018?
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I chose to interview Sara for the AATC Interview Series because of her inspiring optimism that seems perfect to start the new year with. Sara and I even organized a collaborative discussion about her book with our graduate classes. I came to know Sara and her husband, Mark, at the 2017 AATC Awards Dinner in Denver, CO, and we have kept contact ever since. Outstanding Book Award (2017) for her book, Urban Educational Identity: Seeing Students on Their Own Terms. Also an adjunct professor for the Department of Educational Studies at OSU, Sara has an extensive background in qualitative methodologies, particularly in sociocultural policy analysis, feminist and poststructural methodologies, and grounded theory. Childers is the Assistant Director for The Women’s Place, which is in the Office of Culture Change and Gender at The Ohio State University.