Episode 5: Indy Shome, Student of Humanity

When You Grow Up Podcast

English - June 05, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 4: Shahzad Khohkar, Teacher/Coach/Dad

Next Episode: Episode 6: Morgan Martin, Impactful

Indy Shome and I discuss his unique personal/professional journey, where his objective is to help cultivate more whole system-level thinkers to solve common problems in education and access to information. We talk about confirmation bias and the importance of hearing stories from a variety of perspectives.

Indy is disrupting traditional education in the program where he teaches at Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School. He describes the program as relationship-centered, and focused on real-life feedback and application.

A little bit about Indy Shome, written by Indy Shome:

Indy Shome is an interdisciplinary humanist who works with music, media, and education. His work over the last year has included scoring an indie film, releasing a collaboration album with a Moscow-based throat singing ensemble, building an e-commerce solution for a local business, developing virtual video journalism resources for WHYY, writing a screenplay, volunteering with a number of community organizations, and in September 2020, designing and launching Philadelphia’s first high school Career & Tech (CTE) program in Music & Media, which was recently recognized with a Lindy Award for education and neighbourhood development.

He was born in Calcutta in 1989, and grew up around India as well as in Hong Kong and Singapore before moving to the US for university and earning “EB-1” US Residency for his work in music. His formal education includes an independent interdisciplinary B.A. in “Music, Media, and Consciousness” from Brown University as well as certificates from Harvard Business School, New York Film Academy, and the City of Philadelphia’s Citizens Planning Institute.

A few references you may be interested in reading more about:

CTE: Career Technical EducationHans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, and Ola Rosling’s book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You ThinkFood Policy Advisory Council, https://phillyfpac.org/Participatory Action ResearchSoil Generation, urban agriculture, https://soilgeneration.org/Community Wealth, https://community-wealth.org/Grassroots Economic Organizing, https://geo.coop/YEAH Philly, youth organization searchable on Facebook, http://yeahphilly.org/B. Alan Wallace’s book Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness