Alexis Atsilvsgi is a Cherokee and Chicana Master of Public Policy student at the Goldman School. She previously served on the California Community College’s Board of Governors and the University of California Board of Regents. Alexis works at the intersection of higher education, supply chain/logistics infrastructure, legal geographies, surveillance policy, and geopoetics to understand geographies of hope in capitalist-entrenched rural landscapes, as well as spatial-driven governance structures. Her past projects include hope-mapping carceral, logistics, and education pathways in rural California for BIPOC communities, best practices for policymakers working with California Tribal governments, and utilizing computational topology to identify communities of interest in electoral districting. Her most recent research project, “From the Loyalty Oath to Darfur: A Policy Ecosystem for Free Speech at the University of California” tracks free speech policies across archival and digital space in order to make historical knowledge and modern concepts of freedom accessible to activists.
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Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
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