I like to write about how seemingly small things in our daily lives are connected to large forces.

My first hero was Peter Gzowski. I first encountered him when I was a wee lass working in my parents’s bakery. (Sounds the start of a joke, doesn’t it?) By the time I was in university, I was a devoted listener. I loved how he really connected with people and gave them space to tell their stories, and taught us all about what it meant to be Canadian. When I was in high school, I discovered my second hero James Burke. Burke hosted a television mini-series called “The Day the Universe Changed” that made connections across time and place in the history of science and technology. The series blew my mind. Who knew that the invention of the printing press changed knowledge from an oral to a written culture? Gzowski’s and Burke’s influences can be seen in my academic research, which involved qualitative interviews, and my interdisciplinary approach to all things.

If you want to know more, I can be found on LinkedIn, Twitter, Github, and StackOverflow. If you still haven’t had enough, I can be reached by email, ses at drsusansim dot org.