Grad Student - BCSM

Jaclyn Schess

Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Jaclyn Schess is a PhD student in Health Policy/Health Economics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She is also pursuing the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy through the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. Her research investigates the social, political, and economic determinants of mental ill-health and addiction utilizing causal inference tools. Her work covers themes across health, development, labor and political economics. In addition, Jaclyn is the CEO and Founder at Generation Mental Health.

Nathan Tilton

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Nathan Anthony Tilton, MA, uses he/him pronouns. His disability pronouns are: service dog handler, chair user, neurodivergent, and disabled veteran. He is the Associate Director at UC Berkeley's Disability Lab and a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology. His research interests encompass disability anthropology, veteran health, critical disability studies, post colonial studies, crip time, and military biopolitics. Nate's research examines the ways in which institutions disable people, focusing on disabled veterans on Guam and the afterlives of former U.S. military bases in the Philippines....

Alex Torrez

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Alex K. Torrez (They/Them) is a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley. They are broadly interested in questions at the nexus of Identity Classifications such as race, gender, and sexuality, Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Organizations. Currently, these interests have led Alex to explore understandings of care in clinical settings, genomics, and the development of recruitment strategies for scientific study and organ donation.

Katherine Wolf

Environmental Science (ESPM), UC Berkeley

Mo'e Yaisikana

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Mo'e Yaisikana is a member of Cou (Indigenous Taiwanese) and a doctoral student at the School of Social Welfare. His intellectual interests concern care equity for Taiwan's older adults. He examines the construction and hindrance of care policies and service delivery system and aims to unravel a comprehensive, systematic, intersecting dynamic form of power to help explain challenges for Indigenous elders' accessibility to care service. His research includes the development of care service techniques, the intersection between governmental service and political democratization, and...

Halle Young

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Halle Young is a PhD candidate in the Joint Medical Anthropology program at UCSF-UC Berkeley, where she researches the therapeutic milieu of vulvovaginal pain. Her project explores what practices and ideals of intimacy and gender inspire cisgender women to engage in interventions toward penetration, especially when pain is present.

Michelle Zaragoza

Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Michelle Zaragoza (MSW, LCSW) is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Ph.D. Student in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on using qualitative methodologies, including arts-based research, to explore the lived experiences of mental health and trauma among Latinx communities. Her work investigates the wide-ranging mental health disparities that impact Latinx immigrant communities. Drawing on her clinical experience as a mental health therapist, Michelle is dedicated to informing culturally relevant and trauma-informed social work practices and Behavioral Health policies.

Anna Zaret

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Anna Zaret is a Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. She has research interests in medical and scientific evidence, criminal procedure, and tort law, where she combines her expertise in political economy and political theory to approach contemporary problems related to police violence, health policy, and social inequality. She was previously a fellow at the UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy and clerked for the Hon. Laurel Beeler in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and. She received her J.D. magna cum laude...