Bradley Afroilan is a 1st generation, 4th year Undergraduate majoring in Sociology at UC Berkeley who transferred to Cal from UCSB in the Fall of 2014.  At UCSB, Bradley was a research assistant for John Foran and also wrote and presented a paper on the rapport between the media and Pilipin(x)/ Pilipin(x)  Americans at the Comparative Literature Dept's annual Conference.  This past year at Cal, Bradley has worked closely with the Pilipin(x) Community in his involvement with the Pil-Studies Committee and as a Volunteer Organizing Committee Co-coordinator who successfully helped the Pil-Community Endorsed Senator get elected to Senate.  At Haas, Bradley is hopeful to bridge the gap between academia and community organizing by taking what he has learned and apply it to practice in creative, unconventional ways and also interactively engaging with community organizing. Bradley's research interests are in race/ethnicity, especially Pil-American/Diasporic Studies, decolonization, and art as a tool for social change.  For fun, Bradley enjoys reading, watching cartoons, running, and playing guitar & with dogs.