Kian Vesteinsson is a rising senior at Pomona College and is contributing to the Just Public Finance program at HIFIS. He is a double major in Politics and Religious Studies, with a coursework focus on the dynamics of race and religion in the post-9/11 United States. Kian wants to explore how we can make academic knowledge accessible and actionable, especially as relating to equity in education, systems of immigrant integration, and life in the city. At Pomona, Kian is a head mentor with Asian American Mentor Program, a student-run mentorship and leadership development program. His work at HIFIS deals with Puerto Rico's economic distress, the structures at play in student debt, and the threat to education presented by international trade agreements.
