Conversations From The Leading Edge

We are excited to announce our first episode featuring student voices! Thu Thu May Oo and Erina Iwasaki are current graduate students of Teachers College, Columbia University. They discuss their perspectives on the current situation in Myanmar and their involvement with the Myanmar Association at Columbia University (MAC). **This episode was recorded in May 2021. The producer of this episode acknowledges that the situation in Myanmar is continuously changing and there may have been some updates since the time of this recording. ** Bio(s): Thu Thu May Oo is originally from Myanmar and she is a graduate student, pursuing MS in Nutrition Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Previously, she worked as a New Roots Food and Health Intern and a community liaison at International Rescue Committee for the Burmese refugee and immigrant communities in Seattle, Washington. She is also a freelance social and food justice writer. With her new career in nutrition education and dietetics, she hopes to work w