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Julia Bello-Bravo
Julia Bello-Bravo is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, United States) and a co-founder and co-director of Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO). Her research interests lie at the intersection of effective communication, learning and systems research for making scientifically grounded and culturally competent innovation-solutions accessible to the demographics most in need of them. Practically, this has involved more than a decade researching, developing and deploying informal educational and communication systems that surmount or solve the ‘last-mile’ problem for securing solution-adoption especially for and by the world’s poor, and its 800 million low- or non-literate learners and people (including Indigenous people and women) who are marginalized, overlooked or blocked from participating in the social goods of those solutions. At its core, this work is inspired by insights arising from personal, anecdotal and formal investigations into the experiences of migration that disclose themes around the theory and practice of ‘last-mile’ research and efforts not usually emphasized or taken into account. Above all, these themes include the influence of identity and knowledge-practices (especially Indigenous) on solution-adoption or buy-in among intended recipients of a solution-innovation.
Contact: Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication, Purdue University, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Life Science Animal Building, 915 W State St Floor 3, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.