Laura Novaes Medeiros Reiss is an anthropologist and consultant in São Paulo Brazil, and a member of the EPIC2022 PechaKucha Committee.
Tell us about yourself in one sentence.
I'm an anthropologist passionate about people and how much we can learn from their everyday lives.
Why did you say ‘yes’ to being on an EPIC committee?
So that I could get even more involved and engage in a community that I believe in and find incredibly interesting.
When you think about the best proposals you read, what really made them stand out?
The topic the proposals decided to talk about - sometimes the simplest ones are the most interesting, and the path they chose to do it.
Is this your first EPIC?
I have been to São Paulo (2015), Montreal (2017), and the online conferences (2020, 2021).
What would you like to say to people who are considering coming to EPIC for the first time?
I think EPIC manages to navigate the academic and corporate worlds incredibly well, which is evident in the annual conferences. Coming to the conference means seeing...
