Summer Fellowship

Camille Braswell is a rising undergraduate senior at Loyola University Chicago where she majors in both Environmental Studies and Economics. Her educational pursuits have revolved around public policy research focusing on the intersection of environmental issues and racial inequalities born out of historical policymaking. She has a particular interest in residential segregation and how it exacerbates and reinforces environmental injustices.

Aaron Kinard is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Education Studies and History. During his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aaron’s research examined the racialized experiences of Black students in rural, predominantly white high schools.

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.

Dalia Elkhalifa is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy with a focus on International Development and Global Inequality. As a first-generation Sudanese-American, Dalia’s research interests reflect her lived experiences. They center diaspora communities and investigating how research can better advocate for actionable, people-centered policy change for refugee integration.

Gabriela Cordoba Vivas is an artist-scholar that works in the intersection between art, media, and social justice. She is a second-year student of the PhD in Media Study at the University at Buffalo. She holds a bachelor degree in Political Science with an Art History minor from Los Andes University and an MA in Communication and Media from the National University of Colombia. Her research has revolved around epistemological justice, the right to the city, and cultural representations of transgender sex work.

Lindsey Burnside (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in the Social-Personality area of the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her previous work includes projects linking racial residential segregation to health disparities via epigenomic mechanisms, investigations of racism-related vigilance, and in-group expectations of social affirmation. Her research interests include health equity, racism-related stress, and integrative, person-centered, research methods.

Eliza Brooks is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where she majored in Political Science and minored in Public Policy.  Her studies centered the impact of historical, economic, and social forces on the operation of politics, and the ways in which public policy can be utilized to ensure equitable access to justice for all people. Outside of the classroom, Eliza proudly served as a Resident Assistant helping first-year students navigate their transition to Cal.

Emily Stratmeyer is a rising 2L at Wake Forest University School of Law. Originally from Baltimore, MD, she earned her Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Government and Politics from University of Maryland, College Park in 2016. Prior to starting her legal education, Emily served as an intern for the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and worked as a legal assistant at a prominent mediation and arbitration firm in Washington, D.C.. Emily is interested in criminal justice reform, child welfare, and housing policy.

Priya Prabhakar is a rising senior at Scripps College, pursuing a degree in Media Studies with a focus in labor, surveillance, and visual theory. Priya has previously worked at the Worker Rights Consortium where she did research about labor union movements of garment workers in the Global South.

Rolando received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Pitzer College, completing a double major in Sociology and Spanish. As an undergraduate, Rolando completed two qualitative-based theses centering on Intercultural Bilingual Education and the revitalization of indigenous identity in Andean Ecuador, and a second thesis project examining the fluidity of racial and ethnic identity formations of Latinx students in domestic and international contexts after completing study abroad programs.

Anna Palmer received her Bachelors of Arts degree in Sociology with a concentration in migration, race, and education at Occidental College. For the last few years, Anna served as the Education in Action (EIA) Coordinator at the Center for Community Based Learning where she collaborated with multiple stakeholders to develop reciprocal community-based projects and research.