Elliot Smith recently graduated from The Univeristy of Iowa, where he received a B.A. in public health and sociology, a certificate in social science analytics, and a minor in Chinese. Elliot is interested in public health work which addresses the intersectional social justice needs of communities suffering health disparities. As an undergraduate, Elliot's research confronted social determinants of health and the sociology of public health inequalities.

Sabrina Shih is a rising junior at Columbia University studying computer science and human rights. She is passionate about how the solutions to global existential risks are also opportunities for transformative social change through the inclusion and empowerment of marginalized communities. As a coordinator in her university’s hub of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led, grassroots movement for climate justice and a just transition, Sabrina is committed to building a diverse movement for collective liberation.

María Rojas is a Chilean Ph.D. candidate from the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. In Chile, she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism. She became interested in specializing in education after working for two years as a Spanish teacher in a marginalized high school in Santiago. After that experience, she came to the US with a Fulbright scholarship to pursue her masters’ degree in Education Policy at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Erfan Moradi is a graduate of the History and Geography departments at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in labor and urban histories. His thesis follows the proliferation of container shipping in San Francisco Bay Area ports and its concomitant transformations to the urban social fabric. His study centers the voices of worker-artists to explore grief over the disappearance of working-class social spaces. His ongoing research involves developing an archival collection of media from waterfront writers and artists for the Bancroft Library.

Brianna Guerrero is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. The Southern California native has worked as a Legislative Fellow for Congresswoman Norma J. Torres and as an Assistant Paralegal for an international business immigration law firm in Washington, DC.

Naomi Garcia (she/they) is a rising third-year at the University of California, Berkeley studying Sociology while minoring in Public Policy. Under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Fuller of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, she has studied the intersection between union relations and public policy within New York City’s Universal Pre-K program, with hopes of pursuing a career in education policy and research. At the Othering & Belonging Institute, she will be working with the Network for Transformative Change on the Civic Engagement Narrative Change project.