#WeAreOSA

This #WeAreOSA podcast explores diversity, visibility, and intersectionality through the unique perspectives of three OSA members – Timothy Imogore, Klaus Jaeger, and Sile Nic Chormaic. They seek to reinforce the importance of inclusion as part of their career journey and their optics community.  Sile, Timothy, and Klaus’ stories come at a critical moment in time, amid OSA and the scientific community making concerted efforts to address exclusion and work towards inclusivity. Although each has each had times when they felt alone, isolated, or excluded, these OSA members can envision how differences can be highlighted and embraced and how that will make the field of optics and photonics stronger and more welcoming.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode offers a glimpse into the unique rapport between a mentor and mentee with first-hand stories from two OSA members – Chris Dainty, 2011 OSA President, and Arlene Smith, 2020 OSA Board of Directors. Their narrative explores how a mentor-mentee relationship can lead to a long-lasting friendship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast features OSA’s global network of student chapters deploying light technologies to hospitals in limited-resource countries to help keep their healthcare workers safe as they fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Leveraging a simple and economical way to decontaminate N95 respirator masks using UV-C light, our student chapter members and their advisers are tackling personal protection equipment shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic in countries including Ethiopia, Ghana, Brazil, India, and Mexico, helping hospital staff via this OSA Foundation initiative. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk to four OSA Ambassadors who are working with OSA to inspire students and advance careers across the world