The CuPID Project
The CuPID Project is a six week instructional course designed by Susan Graff and produced by Karthink Hariharan, Kathryn Reed, Cece Williams, Adriana M Vieira, John Guinane, Susan Graff, and myself.
Starting as a Pitt Seed Project from the University of Pittsburgh Health Science’s Department of Diversity Equity and Inclusion, CuPID is an online, asynchronous course designed to rethink how we create community.
Based on clips taken from long-form video interviews conducted by our team, CuPID guides the participant into considering the day-to-day experiences of other Pitt medicine community members. We interviewed students, professionals, instructors, and administrators across many different faculties and departments of the UPMC system, asking them to share challenges and experiences specific to them.
I served as the project manager for the undergraduate film department. I coordinated schedules with John and Susan, attended, shot, and participated in the interviewing process, and coordinated with other film students to attend and work for the shoots. At the end of the interviewing process, I acted as assistant editor to John.
In an effort to maintain personal privacy of the interviewees, I cannot publish any footage from these interviews. Hopefully the course will be active again soon and these interviews, in the full context of the course, will become available again.
Until then, you can watch some of the team members talk about making the course.