Grad Student - BCSM

Laura Díaz

School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Laura Díaz is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley where she studies how biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction can shed light on the underpinnings between exposure to social and environmental stressors on atopic disease among children in frontline environmental justice communities. Having grown up in a frontline environmental justice community in the San Francisco Bay Area, her work is centered on combating environmental injustice in partnership with members of her and other frontline communities. She co-founded Partners for Equity and Research at Sonoma State...

Fabián Fernández

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Fabián Fernández is a student in the joint UCSF-UCB M.D./Ph.D. program in Medical Anthropology. He researches issues of safety, workplace violence, and policing in U.S. Emergency Departments. In his time in the Bay Area, he has organized with healthcare workers from Do No Harm Coalition fighting against wage theft, evictions, and police sweeps. He has also worked to support individuals and families affected by police violence. He models his healing work from years of practice with Clínica Martín Baró, a student-run free clinic grounded in latin-american liberation psychology. He...

Joel Ferrall

Anthropology and Medicine, University of Southern California

Benjamin Fields

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Ale Geisel-Zamora

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Ale Geisel-Zamora is a Ph.D. student in Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in how environmental and social adversity shape variations in human biology and influence minority health disparities. Her research explores these connections through an examination of physiological stress with a focus on female reproductive health and aging at midlife including the menopausal transition.

Jeremy Gottlieb

UCSF-UCB Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jeremy Gottlieb is an MD-PhD student in medical anthropology. They study changing ideas of the human and subjectivity through ethnographic research with neuropsychiatric researchers, clinicians, and those living with Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses.

Anissa Hall

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Anissa Hall (she/her) is an MSW/PhD student passionate about exploring Black intergenerational trauma, with a focus on how the legacy of U.S. anti-Black racism and oppression, compounded by a severance from Indigenous African ways of knowing, being, and healing, has resulted in a uniquely African American – or Soulaan – experience of intergenerational trauma. Her work also aims to explore the ways this legacy of trauma and institutionalized oppression affects healing across Afro-Diasporic communities. She believes that by interrogating the ways that historical and ongoing...

Alein Y. Haro-Garcia

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Xinping Hu

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Xinping Hu is a PhD student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on reproductive law and its social dimensions. Her current projects include work on fertility fraud legislation across U.S. states and the post-Dobbs and post-LePage legal landscape of IVF.

Eijiroh Isa

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Eijiroh Isa is a Berkeley Fellow in the PhD program in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the social experience and culture of people living with type 1 diabetes. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Tokyo.