[Themaintainers] Announcing our Maintainers Movement Fellows 2022!

[Lauren Dapena Fraiz]

Hello everyone,

We are very happy to announce the new, and first, cohort of Maintainers
Movement Fellows 2022! Please check out our blog post
<https://themaintainers.org/maintainers-movement-fellows-2022/>, although I
have copied their bios here so you can learn more about their fantastic
backgrounds! You may recognize some of the names, as some have been members
of the list for a while :)


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   Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez is the Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network and the
host of Working People, “a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and
struggles of the working class today.” Prior to joining The Real News, he
was an Associate Editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education and graduated
with a dual-PhD in History and Comparative Literature from the University
of Michigan. His work has been featured in a range of outlets, including
The Nation, In These Times, Boston Review, Truthout, and The Baffler. He
has a book of interviews coming out in early 2022 with OR Books titled The
Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the
World Broke.


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   Leila D. Behjat & Sam Bennett

Leila D. Behjat is a creative solution finder with a high sense for design
and aesthetics. With a Diplom-Ingenieur (Masters) in Architecture from
Hafencity Universitaet, Hamburg, Germany, she has worked globally in the
fields of interior and lighting design on both residential and commercial
projects. In recent years, she has focused on renovation with healthier
building materials. Her current role as senior researcher at Healthy
Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design deepens her motivation to
contribute to creating spaces that are healthier and joyful to humans and
the planet as a whole.

Sam Bennett is an ethnographer, maker, and designer who believes in slow
research that minimally impacts our planet and advocates for human
well-being. You can find her investigating people’s relationships to
objects in the domestic space, making with mycelium and discarded
materials, and co-running Repair Shop.  She is a senior researcher at
Healthy Materials Lab and also teaches at Parsons School of Design, Pratt
Institute, and New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Interior Design
and Industrial Design departments.


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   Rheanna Chen

Rheanna is devoted to the world of ecology, art and connection. She has a
lifelong commitment to sustainable development in the Caribbean; using
strong systems thinking, capacity building and communication skills to
design inclusive spaces for food sovereignty, climate resilience and
community empowerment. The loss of her mother to leukaemia at age 4,
sparked her interest in holistic health and her journey as yoga/
mindfulness teacher over the last 15 years. She has a Bsc in International
Agriculture Development and a Masters in Gastronomy. She is currently based
in Trinidad, at Ajoupa Pottery where you will find her in the garden,
making pottery and focused on hospitality and food. She lives by the
philosophy- grow, gather and nourish.


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   Tona Rodriguez- Nikl

As a Maintainers Fellow, Tona is interested in how technological
development will adapt to the changing social conditions and physical
realities produced by climate change. Tona is a structural engineer by
training and is a Professor of Civil Engineering at California State
University, Los Angeles. His disciplinary work is in earthquake
engineering. Beyond this, Tona is the chair of the Engineering Philosophy
Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute and previously served on
its Sustainability Committee. He is also the co-author of a textbook on
engineering ethics and teaches a class on the social aspects of disasters.
Tona’s work as a Maintainers Fellow relates to two broad areas. The first
is integrating the idea of care into engineering. The second is
understanding engineering’s relation to well-being in a post-growth economy.

We are excited to work with this fantastic group, and are looking forward
to sharing their outputs with you!




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*Lauren Dapena Fraiz*
*Project Coordinator*
*The Maintainers <https://themaintainers.org/>*
Pronouns: she/her/hers
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