Please join us for a Central Conversation with Air Force Veteran Natalee Webb as we discuss Women in the Military.
Natalee Anne Webb is an Air Force, disabled Veteran of the post-Vietnam era. She was one of the first females admitted into the aircraft mechanics field of the Air Force, becoming the 1st female Aircraft Mechanic assigned to the 18th AGS of Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan. Following close to three years of service, Ms. Webb medically released from the Air Force with an Honorable discharge and later was diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and MST (Military Sexual Trauma). Always a fighter, Ms. Webb worked to eventually become the first female Veterans Service Officer for the City of Melrose, Massachusetts. Ms. Webb continues to be a Veterans Advocate, assisting Veterans with benefits and counseling. She has founded two road races designated to bringing awareness to Veterans: The Veterans Memorial 11K on Veterans Day (1999-2009) in Stoneham, Massachusetts (the only 11K in America), and the Heroes 5-mile run in Melrose, Massachusetts. She is a long-term member of the American Legion’s Post 115 Auxiliary Unit in Stoneham, and currently its Secretary. Ms. Webb is working towards her Bachelor’s Degree as part of the VA’s Vocational Rehabilitation(Chapter 31) program. She is one of nine with three grown children and four grandchildren. Formerly of Stoneham, Ms. Webb now resides in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
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Join us after the March 5th production of Grounded for a special Scholar Social with MIT Professor David Mindell!
Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS)
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
David Mindell received his B.S. (Electrical Engineering, 1988) and his B.A. (Literature, 1988) from Yale University and his Ph.D. from MIT (History of Technology, 1996). He was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. Before coming to MIT he worked as a staff engineer in the Deep Submergence Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he is currently a visiting investigator. Professor Mindell is an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, CT, and a visiting scientist at the Deep Submergence Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2001, Professor Mindell was selected as an MIT Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow for excellence in undergraduate teaching, a distinction he will hold until 2011. In 2006, he became Director of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Professor Mindell teaches courses that combine engineering and the history of technology, including a doctoral seminar in engineering systems.
His research interests include the history of automation in the military, the history of electronics and computing, theories of engineering systems, deep ocean robotic archaeology, and the history of space exploration. He is the author of Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), and Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in the First Six Lunar Landings (forthcoming MIT Press, Spring 2008). Professor Mindell is also co-leading a 10-year collaborative project with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutional and the Greek Ministry of Culture to explore the deep Aegean sea for ancient and bronze-age shipwrecks using autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Join us for a Post-Show Discussion with documentary producer, Sabrina Buckwalter!
Sabrina Buckwalter was the U.S. associate producer for DRONE, an award-winning documentary that explores the crossroads of collateral damage and technological advancement in drone warfare. Through the voice of current and former drone operators, drone attack victims, and other experts on the topic, the film shares the personal account of people on all sides of the trigger point. The film won the Cinema for Peace Award for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year in Berlin and premieres at the True/False Film Festival on March 5.
Sabrina has worked for Al Jazeera English, for the investigative news magazine show, People & Power, and also, briefly, for ABC News.
Prior to moving to New York, she was a reporter in Mumbai, for The Times of India, the nation’s largest daily.
She’s a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and received her B.A. in political science from Columbia University.
Follow Sabrina on Twitter, find her on the web here, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Join the cast and creative team for a post performance conversation.
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Join us for a post-show discussion with scholar Tommy Tobin!
Tommy Tobin is a student at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. He currently serves as a Teaching Fellow in the Harvard Economics Department. A graduate of Stanford University, Tommy’s publications have appeared in newspapers and scholarly journals. He previously served as a Research Assistant to Stanford Psychologist Albert Bandura OC for several years and is currently undertaking research to apply Bandura’s moral disengagement framework to drone warfare.
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