Kate De Groote is a first year at Harvard University studying Government and Film. She is from Salt Lake City, Utah, and is currently loving living in Massachusetts. Her passion for criminal justice reform was spurred from a class project in 9th grade...
Michael Zanger-Tishler is a PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy. He is interested in understanding the relationship between ethnoracial division and the criminal justice system in a comparative context, specifically looking at the United States...
Che Applewhaite is a Trinidadian-British writer, filmmaker, and college senior in Anthropology, and History & Literature at Harvard University. He approaches cultural work with internationalist and interdisciplinary commitments to politics of time...
Emma Herman is a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her areas of interest include urban and environmental history, racial capitalism, carceral studies, and critical geography. Her current project examines the relationships...
Shelly Liu is a first-year student at Harvard University looking to concentrate in Computer Science. She is an international student from China, but she attended high school in Concord Massachusetts. She discovered her interest in the criminal justice...
Laura seeks to celebrate and create sites of gathering and study. Her research in American Studies looks at experiments in education throughout the twentieth century, turning to the community-based artists and organizers—Augusta Savage, Noah Purifoy...
Rebecca Horwitz-Willis is a PhD candidate in Education and a Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative graduate fellow at Harvard University. Her work explores the historical relationship between race, education, and social policy with a focus on the development...
Felix Owusu is a doctoral candidate in public policy at Harvard University, an Affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, and a Fellow at the Lab @ DC. He studies the application of law and bureaucratic...
Courtney Wittekind is a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and a Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative fellow. Her doctoral research pursues two lines of inquiry linked to urban development and economic insecurity in contemporary Myanmar (Burma). The primary...
Jasmine Nicole Olivier is a Sociology PhD candidate at Harvard University. Her experiences growing up in New York City shaped her passion for the study of race, poverty, policing, and public housing. Prominent themes in her work include social cohesion...
Balraj Gill is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. She works at the intersection of Indigenous studies, settler colonial and imperial histories of the Americas, and carceral studies. Her dissertation project, The Politics of...
Diana Guo is a researcher and designer. She graduated from the Masters in Landscape Architecture and M.Des Program at the Harvard GSD, where she received the GSD Design Studies Domain Prize and Award for Excellence from the American Society of Landscape...
