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Frictions is about journalists, writers and podcast producers, based in France and abroad, with unique background like the stories they tell us.

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Tammam Hamza is a cinematographer and electronic music producer, notably for Obskura and The Deenjes, as well as a sound director.

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Laura Barroso

Laura Barroso currently lives in Paris and works in philanthropy for a large French corporation. She was born in Reunion Island, with a mix of Spanish and Indian origins, and pursued her studies in political science and management at Sciences Po, in Canada, and in Spain.
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Lou Momège

Freelance web and radio journalist for Radio France, Lou Momège graduated from the Grenoble School of Journalism. She has decided to delve into podcasting to tell and share your stories in the best possible way. Eager for new discoveries, she especially enjoys listening to others. What better way to do so than through the wonderful world of audio?
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Wyatt Williams

Wyatt Williams is the author of 'Springer Mountain: Meditations on Murder and Consumption.' His essays have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Oxford American, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review.
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Sarah Khatry

Sarah Khatry’s essays have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, DIAGRAM, and the Cleveland Review of Books, as well as in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Denver.
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Caitlin Giovannoni

Caitlin Giovannoni is a literature teacher at a lycée in Seine Saint-Denis. She runs writing and sound creation workshops for teenagers and adults.
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Zig Wember

Zig Vember pursued a master's degree in creative writing at Paris 8. She engages in science fiction writing and also has experience in performance art.
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Caelainn Barr

Caelainn Barr is a writer, journalist, and educator from Ireland. She is currently a student in the Literary Nonfiction program at the University of Iowa. She has worked as a journalist for over a decade, writing for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Irish Times, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian, where she also worked as an editor. Barr was awarded the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2022 and earned her Master's in Journalism from Columbia University in New York.
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Connie Chen & Aaron Pang

Connie Chen writes and unwrites the ways lupus has written her. Collaborating with nonconforming bodies in literature, she engages the intersections of psychoanalysis, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, Christian theology, and critical theory. Connie is a MFA candidate at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, where she is an Iowa Arts Fellow. Aaron writes about disability, Chinese-America, food, and his mom. Aaron’s writing has appeared on The Moth Radio Hour, Proof by America’s Test Kitchen, Essay Daily, among others. He is a MFA candidate at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.
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