Biridiana Rodriguez is a former elementary teacher of four years. She is now completing her Master’s in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and evaluation interests encompass the implementation and effectiveness of language policies in southeastern states experiencing a large population influx of immigrants. She hopes to continue serving as an advocate and resource for English Language Learners nationwide.
Read MoreA student in GSE and a writer at heart, Amiri holds strong convictions about the universal right of human beings to be treated with dignity, afforded freedom, and allowed to seek fulfillment. His hope is to live in such a way that his work affirms and honors this belief, and that he never relinquishes his abiding passion for candor, empathy, education, advising, inquiry, programming and art
Read MoreAllysen Marks is completing her Master’s in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. A native of the south, she is passionate about youth activism as a source of societal change. In the past she has worked as an advocate for urban and rural youth living in under-resourced and highly disadvantaged education-deprived environments. She hopes to continue this work as an outspoken activist in situations where education policy decisions are made.
Read MoreLarissa is a PhD student reading across sound, music, and Africana Studies. She thinks about the ways in which we accidentally reproduce the violences we seek to dismantle in our societies. She is invested in exploring forms of imagining and realizing better worlds that are neither ethically bankrupt nor standing to ideological inaction.
Read MoreMichaela is a student in Education, Culture, and Society program. She’s interested in youth-led activism and the intersection between legal advocacy and community organizing, with an overarching interest in anti-racist policy and resource allocation in public schools.
Read MoreAlicia Chatterjee is completing her masters in education at the University of Pennsylvania and starting her PhD in social work. She is broadly interested in intersections of engaged healing and justice. She came to Activism & Education with a background in organizing with survivors of intimate violence, especially survivors of color, and with an interest in activism as an effort towards healing.
Read MoreErin Waddles was a master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Higher Education Division. To enhance her experience, she worked as a graduate intern at the Greenfield Intercultural Center, where she supported all of the programming and training at this center. Her professional interests center on promoting equity, access, and diversity in higher education.
Read MoreBetsy Boggs is a master’s student in the Education, Culture, and Society program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is originally from rural South Carolina and has spent many years working and studying the intersections of race, housing, and education in rural Alabama. She hopes to continue working alongside rural communities--specifically in the rural South--as an advocate for equitable educational opportunities for students and families in those communities.
Read MoreShanell Hagood is originally from Detroit, Michigan. She is a first-generation low-income college student currently completing her M.S.Ed in Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a strong interest in college student activism surrounding campus racial climate.
Read MoreConnor is undergraduate senior interested in the intersections of political science, and arts education. He will be traveling to Thailand in the fall to study alternative education & project based learning. Please check out his photography website at www.connoraugustine.com
Read MoreA native of the Chicago suburbs, Henry is a committed advocate for educational equality and providing greater resources to college access to as many different students as possible. Henry graduated with an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Higher Education administration program. He currently serves as the principal of North Shore Tutoring Company in Highland Park, Illinois.
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