Grad Student - ISSI

Sheyda Aboii

Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco

Joshua Acosta

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Alexander Adia

Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Alexander Adia is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Population and Data Science Track). Alexander's research works towards the achievement of health equity and the addressing of health disparities, with a focus on identifying how market and policy changes can (intentionally or unintentionally) influence such outcomes. His existing projects include analyses on medical debt, provider market consolidation and its impacts on patients, and quality of care for Medicaid patients. His work prior to his doctoral program included research on data disaggregation for Asian Americans, Filipinx...

Elena Amaya

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Aukeem Ballard

Education, UC Berkeley

Aukeem Ballard is a former secondary public-school educator, organizer, and school leader whose pedagogy and practices remain grounded in critical love. Aukeem is currently a PhD student in the Berkeley School of Education with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. Aukeem's current research focuses on the gendered and racialized educational experiences, conditions, and practices that constitute (and are shaped by) phenomena such as love, hope, healing, and courage as mediated through, thereby informing, often oppressive and dehumanizing spaces. Aukeem seeks to highlight and...

Eduardo Bautista-Duran

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Ataya Cesspooch

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Tak-Huen Chau

Political Science, UC Berkeley

Tak-Huen Chau is a PhD candidate in political science and MA candidate in economics. He is interested in social identities and political behavior in general. Currently, he is working on projects that utilize formal theory and surveys to explain dominant group attitudes on national identity, assimilation, and bilingual education.

Lena Chen

Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Bonnie Cherry

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Bonnie Cherry is a PhD Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Berkeley Law. Her work explores the martial origins (and persisting militaristic dimensions) of the administrative state, and how the management of Indian affairs shaped civilian administrative policies and enforcement mechanisms from the earliest days of the nation. Her current project focuses on how Tribal nations either facilitate or resist militarization of Tribal lands. She is a Berkeley Empirical Legal Scholars Fellow, a John L. Simpson Research Fellow in International and Area Studies, and an AAUW Dissertation...