Every month, Story Collider holds a virtual story slam. This October, we’ll present our third ever SUPER COLLIDER SLAM, in which five fan favorites from previous slams will return and compete for the ultimate prize: a Story Collider hoodie.

The third group of five winners of the Story Collider Slams who will be competing for this ultimate prize of being the third ever Super Collider Winner will be:

Jenice Matias
Jonathan Feakins
Saundra Bishop
Peggy Keiner
Allan Adams

Gastor Almonte is a stand-up comedian and storyteller from Brooklyn, NY. He's appeared on Comedy Central's This Is Not Happening, Risk! podcast and the Story Collider Podcast. Timeout magazine named him one of your "New Comedy Obsessions." He's been featured on the New York Comedy Festival, The People's Impov Theater's SoloCom and Cinderblock Comedy Festival. His new album, Immigrant Made, was released in March 2019.

Mark Pagàn is an award-winning filmmaker, audio producer, writer, educator, and graying b-boy. His audio work has appeared on Code Switch, WNYC, Latino USA, TED, On Something, On the Media, Family Ghosts, Las Raras, Radiotopia, McSweeney’s, and the CBC. Most recently, Mark worked on La Brega, a seven-part series about the Puerto Rican experience and currently produces limited run series for Radiotopia. His films and performances have been shown at dozens of festivals and shows worldwide including Slamdance Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, IFP Week, Tribeca Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, Podcast Movement, RISK!, The Moth, and Story Collider. Mark is the host and creator of the award-winning podcast, Other Men Need Help, a playful look at how men present themselves to the world, and what's underneath.

Catherine Macdonald is co-founder and Director of Field School, a marine science training and education company dedicated to constantly improving field research practices while teaching students to perform hands-on research with sharks. She is also a lecturer and MPS marine conservation track coordinator at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Saundra Bishop is therapist, business owner, and mom of 4. She once hooked up with a dude on Tindr who asked her if she was lying about all the cool things she does* Saundra loves telling stories about travel adventures, her kids, and romantic follies. If you're lucky you might hear one of her more risqué stories sometime!
*She was not

Jonathan Feakins is just some nerd who has tried to spend his life wandering strange places, reading obscure books, doing weird science, petting adorable animals, fighting the good fight, and having wonderful friends. He somehow has a species of earthworm named after him, and once got kicked out of an all-you-can-eat restaurant (for eating all he could eat). He first learned the power of a good story from his grandmother, as she regaled him with tales about her childhood pet crocodile (whose name was Baby), or about the time she (accidentally) cleared out a biker bar with a Swazi bible student named Enoch. You can learn more about his questionable life choices at bookwormcity.com.

Peg Keiner is the Director of Innovation at GEMS World Academy-Chicago where she supports students and staff in technology integration for positive community impact. She is also a National Geographic Education Fellow, Grosvenor Teacher Fellow, and Explorer Mentor focusing on citizen science and educational outreach. She designs learning experiences that connect people to place through immersive storytelling and data collection. You can listen to conversations with Explorers on her podcast Thriving on the Possibility.

Allan Adams is an oceanographer who creates tools for exploring and stewarding aquatic ecosystems.  Trained as a theoretical physicist, Allan jumped ship to ocean engineering when he had kids and felt a newfound sense of responsibility for the physical world they would inherit.   In 2021, after 15 years at MIT, Allan formally left the ivory tower to start Oceanic Labs, a hybrid non-profit dedicated to industrial innovation for ocean conservation.  Allan lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife, Rebecca, and his two wildly energetic boys, Hazard and Trouble (aka Arthur and Percy).

Jenice Matias works as an EMT and as a special service teacher. But Her passion is performing. She is a dancer, singer, actor, comedy writer , comedian and storyteller. She has performed story telling for the Moth, Monti, The Story Collider and Risks, just to name a few. Her stories can be heard on “ A funny Thing on Splitsider”, SoundCloud, and podcasts. She has written and performed several solo shows. In 2020, she performing her solo show on zoom entitled “Pussinomics, A comedy” she plays different characters. Her new solo show is call “I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it”. Jenice has been accepted in two online international performance ensembles. Montréal

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