In the early 90s, when I was in first and second grade, I kept a shoebox full of my treasured dinosaur items: a coloring and activity book, plastic toys, a special Dinosaur issue of Zoobooks, a mini composition notebook for scientific observations. Around this time, my mom showed me small item in a magazine, she explained that they were making a movie where scientists bring dinosaurs back to life.
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Today, I’m an educator and student in the M.A. in Media Studies program at The New School. I’m interested in researching mediated experiences of dinosaurs — paleoart, scientific reconstructions, museum exhibits, fossils, as well as mass media, movies, toys, and other mediated experiences.