
Marina Tsaplina is a performing artist, disability activist, and Kienle Scholar in the medical/health humanities. Her interdisciplinary artistic praxis integrates object ontology, puppetry animation, disability, science and technology studies, and indigenous/traditional ways of knowing. Her pedagogy Embodiment and Puppetry focuses on cultivating embodiment, training the imagination, and bringing disability consciousness into medical education in order to transform ableism in medicine.