Grad Student - ISSI

Xinyi is a PhD student in Developmental Psychology with six years of experience working with children and families from underrepresented backgrounds in psychological research. Her research focuses on how socio-ecological factors (neighborhood, school, and family) shape the cognitive and socioemotional development of children from low-income and immigrant backgrounds. Her goal is to provide insights for policy and community programs supporting ethnic minority children and families.

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...

Lee Crandall is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at UC Berkeley, broadly researching the effects of blockchain/cryptocurrencies and digital technologies on infrastructures, lands, and lives. Their dissertation research traces the intersection of venture capitalism, far-right extremism, and techno-authoritarianism as connected to cryptocurrency and plots for new tech-cities around the globe. Building on work in the Frankfurt School, they engage critical theory to better understand the dialectic of technology’s dominating tendencies and its democratizing powers. As a...