Rasheed Shabazz is a multimedia journalist and researcher. He 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, focusing on the establishment and operation of Black student news publications across the UC System.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Navgeet King Zed (King) is a senior at UC Berkeley pursuing dual degrees in Business Administration and Rhetoric with a Minor Global Poverty and Practice. He is deeply passionate about issues of food justice, food equity and sustainability and their relationship with business and finance. He is interested harnessing the power of business to do good and make a global impact.

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 successf

Emily Stein is a fourth-year part-time law student at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies and Special Honors from Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she performed independent research on the quality of life for LGBT communities in rural and urban spaces.  Prior to commencing her legal education, Emily worked closely with diverse communities through grassroots outreach and community programs in New York and New Jersey’s urban centers.  As a law student, Emily has focused her stud

Fernando Reyes is passionate about reversing historical trends of structural inequality though his passion for economics and finance.