Grad Student - ISSI

Caylee Hong

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Caylee Hong is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she researches urban oil production in the Los Angeles Basin. Her dissertation examines the ways that diverse stakeholders navigate the decommissioning and redevelopment of century-old oil fields in the heart of cities, including Los Angeles and Long Beach. She has published research on infrastructure finance, the environment, law, and citizenship in Antipode and Anthropological Theory. Prior to Berkeley,...

Hu Hsu

History, UC Berkeley

Cathy Hu

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Cathy Hu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersection of punishment and society, social movements, and political sociology. Currently, she is working on a qualitative project examining criminal justice activism in the Bay Area. This project focuses on the county criminal court, and DA elections in particular, as a new site of intervention for social movements from across the political spectrum. Before starting at Berkeley, Cathy worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center...

Victoria Huynh

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Jessica Jiang

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Sara Johnsen

Sociology, UCLA

Cherod Johnson

African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Makaela Jones

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Makaela Jones (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the School Psychology program at Berkeley School of Education and identifies as a radical Black feminist and youth advocate. Her dissertation research focuses on the praxis and pedagogy of Black women educators and how they create liberatory spaces for BIPOC children. Makaela analyzes how school adults reimagine their power to destabilize the logic that assumes that children are incapable, hyper-dependent, and uncivilized. As a child therapist and school psychologist, Makaela refuses to normalize the ableist, anti-Black...

Michelle Katuna

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Michelle Katuna (Ashkenazi Jewish and non-Jewish European settler descent) is a graduate student in Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Michelle's research focuses on ongoing collaborations between Tribal nations, private landowners, and local environmental agencies and organizations to develop guidance for, and empirical evidence to support, Indigenous stewardship and co-stewardship on private lands. Tribal nations are important actors in developing place-based solutions to environmental challenges, yet their decision-making authority over ancestral lands is often compromised...

Anatol Klass

History, UC Berkeley