Winne Luo is a rising sophomore double majoring in Public Health and Statistics at UC Berkeley. She has interests in health disparities and disease in populations, and the place-based, socioeconomic, and political determinants of health. Previously, Winne has worked with the Office of Equity and Inclusion to analyze diversity in high school admissions to UC Berkeley. She hopes to use insights derived from data to further health equity and social justice.

Thomas Matthew is a J.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he was awarded the Boalt Hall Dean's Fellowship. His research interests include examining solutions to methodological tensions among progressive liberals in California. Thomas' academic work is heavily influenced by his desire to give legal and political agency to underserved communities worldwide. Prior to joining the Haas Institute, Thomas attended Amherst College where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

Tanvi Rajgaria is a rising senior at Pomona College, with a major in Economics and minor in Religious Studies. Her focus is on bringing together human narratives - historical, anthropological, and philosophical - into data and modeling framework development. Tanvi herself has a long history of working as a bridging liaison between institutions and communities, looking forward to her role as At-Large Student Representative on the Board of Trustees Finance Committee for Pomona College.

Rhonda Itaoui is in the final year of a PhD program in Social Sciences at Western Sydney University in Australia, and a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project.

Jasmine Guraya is currently double majoring in Psychology and International Economics & Migration at UC Berkeley and anticipates graduating in Fall 2017. She has a wide array of interests and is intrigued by how and why people reason the way they do, how the human brain functions, and ponders on the role of international events and economic labor theories on migration.

Minahil Khan received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Advocacy and Argumentation at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Minahil served as a William J. Clinton Fellow for Service in India where she worked on a women’s livelihood initiative at the Aga Khan Foundation’s Delhi office. She is currently earning her JD at the Georgetown University Law Center.

EJ Toppin is a Master of Public Policy Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. As a Summer Fellow at the Haas Institute, he is engaged in efforts to address housing affordability and the issue of displacement in Richmond, California as well as Greater Detroit, Michigan's water contamination and infrastructure crisis. Prior to returning to school for graduate studies, EJ worked as a legislative aide on environment, agriculture, and energy issues in the United States Senate.

Derrick Duren is a senior transfer student at UC Berkeley completing a double major in Media and American Studies. Derrick has dedicated much of their extracurricular time to social justice education and advocacy through their experiences as Multi-Cultural Awareness Chair and as a curator for Multi, their inaugural art showcase for students of color at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Derrick currently serves as a Development Assistant & Honorary Student Committee member at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

Daniel Russel Cheung is an incoming senior at UC Berkeley majoring in History. Outside of the fellowship, Daniel works to mitigate the effects of Proposition 209 on communities of color by serving as the External Director of the Bridges Multicultural Resource Center. Daniel also works with Asian and Pacific Islander students. He served as a Community Advocate in the Asian Pacific American Student Development Office and created and instructed a seminar on multiracial history in Berkeley's Asian American Studies Department.

Taliah Mirmalek is a community researcher-organizer from Oakland. She will conduct research and analysis supporting a multi-stakeholder collaborative aimed at increasing civic participation among those who have been excluded or disaffected, rather than simplistically focusing on the consistently politically active. For the past three years, she has been organizing as a researcher in the labor movement, most recently with UNITE HERE Local 2850.