Teamwork: Stories about working together

Published: March 15, 2019, 10 a.m.

b"Part 1: A power outage on campus leads physics student Zoya Vallari to take a stand against her university's female-only curfew.\\nPart 2: Firefighter Nick Baskerville is eager to prove himself when he arrives on the scene of his first fire.\\nZoya Vallari is a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech where she studies\\xa0 fundamental particles called neutrinos. She received a PhD in particle\\xa0 physics from Stony Brook University in December 2018. She's the\\xa0 winner of Three Minute Thesis competition at her graduate school and was\\xa0 awarded the International fellowship by American Association of\\xa0 University Women. Physics and dance are the two most important ways\\xa0 in which she relates to the world, though books come a close third. She\\xa0 loves mangoes, wine and sunshine. She is proud of her ability to lucid\\xa0 dream.\\xa0 \\nNick has had the honor of serving in the United States Air Force for a\\xa0 total of 14 years. He has 19 years of fire service time, with 16 years\\xa0 of that being in a career department in Northern Virginia. Nick is a\\xa0 state certified instructor for the fire service in Virginia where he\\xa0 teaches classes ranging from basic fire fighter skills to Cancer\\xa0 awareness for the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN). Nick is\\xa0 also a member of Better Said Than Done, a storytelling organization in\\xa0 Northern VA. His stories have been featured there, The Moth, Storyfest\\xa0 Short Slam, Secretly, Ya\\u2019ll and Perfect Liars Club. Nick has started a\\xa0 blog, Story Telling On Purpose (www.stop365.blog), as a way to connect the storytelling community with the rest of the DC, MD, VA area. \\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"