Roundtable Discussion with Manoush Zomorodi

Join us in an informal discussion with successful journalist, author and host of popular podcasts Note to Self and ZigZag.

Manoush Zomorodi is a journalist, podcaster, and media entrepreneur. Investigating how technology is transforming humanity is her passion and expertise. She is the author of Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self (St. Martin's Press) and one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business. Her 2017 TED Talk on surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy" has been viewed 3million+ times.

In 2018, Manoush co-founded Stable Genius Productions, a media company with a mission to help people navigate personal and global change. Stable Genius uses podcasts as a lab; its first project is ZigZag, a show about the changing culture of business and work. Manoush is also the creator and host of Note to Self, a co-production with WNYC Studios which the Academy of Podcasters named Best Tech Podcast of 2017. Most recently, she was named host of IRL, an original podcast from Firefox about the future of the Web.

She's won numerous awards, including two Gracies for Best Radio Host and is especially proud of the Webby her team won in 2018 for The Privacy Paradox, an interactive digital project about personal data.

More information on Manoush and links to the podcast can be found below:
http://www.manoushz.com/
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/notetoself

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