Grad Student - ISSI

Zhuofan Li

Sociology, University of Arizona

Sarah Manchanda

Education, UC Berkeley

Daryl Mangosing

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Daryl Mangosing (they/he/she) is a DrPH Candidate in Berkeley Public Health whose interests lie at the intersection of LGBTQ+ health disparities, community-engaged research, mixed-methods, and Critical Theory. For their dissertation, Daryl is studying sexualized drug use (i.e., recreational or illicit drug use to facilitate and enhance sexual activity), harm reduction practices and strategies, and health outcomes among sexual and gender diverse people in the context of HIV prevention and online dating applications. Previously, they served as a Research Communications Specialist at...

Brie McLemore

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Brie McLemore is a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a Masters in Public Policy/Master of Arts in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Gender Studies from New College of Florida. Her research focuses on the adoption and integration of technology in urban spaces and the implications for surveillance. She is a Health Policy Research Scholar at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Pauline White Meeusen

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Michael J. Myers II

African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Lisa Ng

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Martha Ortega Mendoza

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Martha Ortega Mendoza is the proud daughter of two former restaurant cooks. Currently, Martha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation builds upon the scholarship focused on undocumented students by documenting and uplifting the academic, social, and financial experiences of undocumented graduate students. Through her research, Martha identifies how institutional agents (e.g., staff, administrators, and faculty) can attract, retain, and help undocumented graduate students complete their graduate studies. In...

Catherine Park

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Catherine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in Education at the University of California, Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. Catherine's research centers on how Mandarin-English dual immersion programs offered in private and public/charter schooling interact with not only sociospatial politics of urban spaces, but also transnational movements of capital, peoples, and power. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Psychology from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in China Studies from Zhejiang University, and has taught in NYC public high schools, where she...

Sarah Payne

Sociology, UC Berkeley