Media
Public Scholarship and Appearances
2025 Kennedy, Lesley. “The Real Reason the Wicked Witch of the West Is Green: L. Frank Baum’s original story never described her that way.” History.com. https://www.history.com/articles/wicked-witch-wizard-oz-movie-technicolor-green.
2025 “Asked & Answered” Why is She Green?.” Letters & Science Magazine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Interview)
2024 “It Wasn’t Easy Being Green for the Actress who Originally Played the Wicked Witch.” NPR. (Interview)
2017 “Performing Cyberanthropology on Twitch Communities.” Geek & Sundry. (Twitch Interview)
2017 “Geek Philanthropy and Community Organization on Twitch.” HyperRPG. (Twitch Interview)
2016 “Episode 13 – Green Eyed Trombonist.” Audio Entropy. (Podcast Interview)
2016 “HooPod 5 – Ailea aka Green Eyed Trombonist.” HooPod. (Podcast Interview)
2015 “203- School Hard ft. Ailea Merriam-Pigg.” Sunnydale Study Group. (Podcast Guest Host)
Selected Digital Production Work
2023- Research Consultant. Where There’s Woke. Podcast.
2022 “Persephone Trailer.” Bitsy Game Trailer.
2021 “Lets Talk with Professor Damien Pfister.” Twitch Interview.
2020. “Persephone.” Bitsy Game. (Gee! Learning Game Awards Finalist)
2020 “Let’s Talk with Rhetoric Scholar Kai Prins.” Twitch Interview.
2020 “Let’s Talk with Media Scholar Maureen Mauk.” Twitch Interview.
2020 “Let’s Talk with IT Architect Bill Pigg.” Twitch Interview.
2020 “Let’s Talk with Botanist Alexa DiNicola.” Twitch Interview.
2020 “Driver Picks the Music. Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.” In Media Res (2020).
2017 “Team Diachronic Parking Matters.” SJSU & Nissan Research Center Collaborative Videos.
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