This summer we were privileged to have a group of creative, hard-working, and multi-talented interns working with us. Here are some of the things our summer interns have been working on:
- The Racist Underside of Child Welfare
- DA Research Project Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Report from the Second Annual Gathering of Social Movements on Water
Read these and more at their blog on medium.com:
Intern bios:
Rosie Fatt is a rising senior at Barnard College double-majoring in American Studies and Sociology. She hopes to pursue a law degree soon after her undergraduate studies and aspires to someday work in civil liberties litigation. In her free time, Rosie enjoys participating in the sport of rowing and exploring new restaurants in the Boston area.
Alison Gadd is a rising senior at Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg, NY. Alison enjoys singing and theater arts, and has participated in a local Shakespeare theater for 10 years. Interested in social justice and equality, Alison is looking forward to helping the Institute grow and become more accessible to those who are in need and are subject to discrimination.
Tomas Gonzalez is a rising high school junior at Beaver Country Day School. This summer he is assisting the institute with video filming and editing.
Jessica Maposa is a recent graduate of Amherst College where she double majored in Architectural Studies and Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. While at Amherst she worked in the Women’s and Gender Center, the Center for Community Engagement, and wrote a thesis about urban planning in post Katrina New Orleans’ low income communities of color; these experiences, among others, allowed her to explore social injustices in professional, academic, and community settings. She is currently an analyst at a tech startup in the Boston area.
Deborah Monti is a rising junior at Yale University, where she studies American History and conducts departmental research on Jim Crow law. Outside of class she does improvisational comedy with the Yale Exit Players and tutors local public school students in reading and history. A native of Pittsburgh and a proud product of public school, Deborah is interested in fair education and civil rights, and hopes to study more of both at Yale and later in law school.
Sam O’Brien is a rising senior at Amherst College, majoring in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies. She hopes to devote a career to effecting policy change according to her goals of racial and gender equality, ideally by attending first and foremost to the intersection at which all forms of oppression meet. She is unsure whether or not she will approach this goal through a career in academic research or somewhere else in the public policy realm.
Bunnard Phan is a rising senior at Stanford studying Symbolic Systems and Philosophy. A first-generation Cambodian American, he is passionate about the principles of community justice, especially as it applies to his community back home in Lowell, MA.
Tolu Sogade is a rising junior at Brown University concentrating in International Relations, with a focus in Economics, and Africana Studies. After graduating from Brown, she aspires to pursue a career in community justice work in terms of racial and social equity.
Katherine Stanton is a rising senior English major at Amherst College. She hopes to pursue graduate degrees in sociology or interfaith studies, and eventually wants to work in community-building and policy development.