Technology Assistant

My name is Jana Liberato and I’m a second year graduate student pursuing an MA in English. Since I hold a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and minor in computer science, I look forward to lending my cross-disciplinary perspective to X-Labs, whose mission deeply resonates with me.

I’m most excited to witness, learn from, and discuss X-Labs’ integrative and interactive pedagogical models!

I’m passionate about all things love! And by that I mean honoring each other and our differences, which has also come to mean grappling with systems that make that difficult. In 2018, I began ideating, writing, illustrating, and 3D modeling assets for a game that reflects on weaponry, imperialism, and its disruptions to the colonized body and mind. My friends shared my passion, and by 2022, we’d formed a studio of musicians, writers, game designers, etc., all working on the project as a point of intersection, joy, and solidarity, where we can celebrate our different backgrounds and expertise. Due to these creative pursuits and my own hybrid academic background, my goal academically is to continue disrupting barriers between the disciplines.

Fun fact: there’s a martial artist to weightlifting pipeline. I fell down it.