HAAS INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP
Magali Duque is a rising senior at Stanford University, majoring in History with a focus in World History and Global Affairs. She is also pursuing a minor in Modern Languages (French and Spanish). A Los Angeles native, she has always been interested in issues of inequality and equitable development, in particular how race, gender and class intersect and affect social development. This led her to join various student organizations on campus through which she has organized conferences and career fairs in order to promote advocacy for human rights and development issues. As an intern at the HAAS Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and a Roosevelt Fellow, she is excited to work alongside her colleagues on the Global Food System project through researching the role of corporations in issues of inequality.
Monica Elizondo is passionate about the intersections of food justice, social justice and inclusivity in the environmental movement. She is starting her second year at Diablo Valley College and hopes to double major at Cal in Environmental Science along with Society and Environment. She was honored to be a fellow at the Haas Institute because of the tremendous potential to make systemic change through research, policy and advocacy. Monica was an intern for several years at Summer of Solutions: Oakland, a youth-led grassroots program in Fruitvale. Through the program, she worked on projects with alternative energy and facilitated workshops to empower youth to become leaders. She uses writing as a means for social change. Monica’s published interview of Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the UFW, is still being used to inspire youth in juvenile halls.
Writing by Monica: An Advocate Speaks: Why Disability Justice is Important for Food Justice
Sara Grossman is a senior at UC Berkeley studying political economy with an emphasis on American Urbanization. She is also a senior staff writer for The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley's independent student newspaper, and previously served as the paper's executive news editor, overseeing coverage related to student life, campus administration, faculty research and the city of Berkeley. Prior to the Haas Institute, Sara interned with CNN's investigative unit in Atlanta, and, before that, The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C. In addition to her work at The Daily Cal, Sara also serves as a volunteer editor for male felons at San Quentin State Prison, which houses the state's only inmate-run newspaper, the San Quentin News, and is an active member of Delta Phi Epsilon, UC Berkeley's co-ed professional foreign service and international affairs fraternity.
Thomas Nolan is a second year law student at UC Berkeley School of Law and is interested in land use, privacy and immigration. Last fall he worked with the California Asylum Representation Clinic and represented his first client under attorney supervision. He was raised in Washington state and received a BA in History at the University of Washington in Seattle. His senior thesis analyzed the legal and societal processes that led to the exclusion of Pacific Northwest tribes from the commercial fishing industry in the late 19th century. Thomas has experience working with spatial analysis software, and looks forward to having the Institute's multidisciplinary and talented researchers and staff as his colleagues.
Writings by Tom: Border Crisis: A Moral Failing in the Making
Natalia Reyes is a third year undergraduate at UC Berkeley double majoring in Legal Studies and Rhetoric with a concentration in Public Discourse. Natalia lives and works in the student-governed Berkeley Student Cooperative, where she has been a Board Member and is currently working to establish a substance-free Academic Theme House. In addition to her outreach and publications work as Communications Fellow for the Haas Institute, Natalia conducts research on human rights discourse and the Colombian Constitutional Court. Prior, she has written and edited for the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership and The Daily Californian. She is a first generation college student passionate about access to justice, the power of discourse, and the economic potential of cooperatively-owned businesses. She managed the Haas Institute’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Interviews by Natalia: Interview with Monica Elizondo on Food Justice and Interview with Magali Duque on Structural Inequalities
Jasmine Sadat recently finished her Master’s in City & Regional Planning from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Her concentrations are Housing, Community, and Economic Development (HCED) and Land Use. At HIFIS, Jasmine will be conducting spatial analyses and creating maps for research projects involving social justice issues. Jasmine will also be summarizing data as tables, charts or other visual representations in connection with employment, housing, education, and other contexts in the social justice arena. Overall, Jasmine has a strong passion for exploring and doing research on issues dealing with socio-spatial segregation and urban policy and planning. Outside of the office, Jasmine enjoys standup comedy and volunteering at local soup kitchens. She felt greatly privileged to work for the Haas Institute.
Rasheed Shabazz graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelors in African American Studies and Political Science, with a minor in City and Regional Planning. Rasheed was most recently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He is founder and current editor-in-chief of The ABC Movement, a UC wide student news publication. He was founding online editor for UC Berkeley's Onyx Express. As a Gilman Scholar, Rasheed studied Swahili in Tanzania. As a McNair Scholar, he researched the relocation of Oakland's Merritt College in the 1960s. His undergraduate thesis explored the history of housing discrimination against African Americans in his hometown of Alameda, CA. He previously studied at College of Alameda and Laney College in Oakland.
Writings by Rasheed: Detroit’s Water Crisis: The Flood of Inequality and Riveting History at Rosie the Riveter Museum in Richmond, California
Sharanya Sriram is a Summer Fellow with the Haas Institute, working with the Roosevelt Institute Summer Academy. She is a rising sophomore at Georgetown University, studying International Politics: Security Studies with a concentration in International Development. At the Institute, Sharanya worked on UC Berkeley's status as an anchor institution, especially with regard to the proposed Richmond Bay campus extension.
Writing by Shiranya: Creating Anchors: Ensuring Community Stability Through UC Berkeley as an Institution
Chloe Tarrasch is a second year undergraduate at UC Berkeley and plans to major in Statistics and Political Economy. This fall, she is a Communications Fellow for the Haas Institute. She previously interned this summer at Curbed SF, an online real estate publication based in San Francisco. At school, she writes for The Daily Californian and volunteers at the Berkeley Student Food Collective. Chloe is passionate about institutional justice, specifically pertaining to economic inequality, gentrification and gender equality. She hopes to learn more about these pressing issues while also spreading this information to policymakers and the public.
