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Joshua G. Acosta is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a third-generation Filipino American and grew up in Southern California. He is a recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship and was... More
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Luíza Bastos Lages is a PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley where she is the recipient of the Berkeley Fellowship and the Silverman Fellowship. Luíza comes from Itabirito, Brazil, the ancestral and unceded land of the Guarachués.... More
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Sofi Chavez (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a 2019-2020 recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. Sofi received her BA in English from Bryn Mawr College in 2017. Sofi’s research interests include Latinx and Chicanx... More
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Claire Chun is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies (Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies). She received her B.A. in Politics and Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University. Her... More
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Fernanda is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Ethnic Studies program. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgia State University, where she majored in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Journalism. Her undergraduate thesis used queer theory and queer of color... More -
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Sierra Edd (Diné) is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people and grew up in Durango, Colorado / Four corners. Her research interests are in Indigenous gender and sexuality,... More
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Isabella Garcia (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley where she is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship and the Katherine Sweeney Fellowship. Isabella received her B.A. in History and English & Creative Writing from Wellesley College in... More
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I am a third-year student and recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study. I received my BA (summa cum laude) in English Honors and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies from the University of Washington in 2019. My research orbits around race,... More
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Victoria (Thanh Nguyen) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She’s a second-generation Vietnamese American who grew up in San Diego, CA. Her research and advocacy are rooted in Southeast Asian abolitionist organizing,... More
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Pilar Jefferson is a PhD student in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Pilar graduated from Vassar College in 2015 with a BA in Art History and Native American Studies focused on 20th century Native American art... More
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Jessica Jiang is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her research looks at Exclusion era histories of Chinese migration in relation to... More
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Peter Kim is a PhD candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies, and his research examines the ways public institutions inform, shape, and mediate the subject formation of urban youth of color. In particular, he analyzes how public schools, the juvenile justice system, non-profit community-based organizations,... More
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AJ is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. By conducting a multi-scalar comparative study on the self-organization of LGBTQI people belonging to racial and ethnic minorities in Budapest, Paris, Montréal and Oakland, his... More
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Breylan Náajeyistláa Martin is a PhD student in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where she is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. She is Tlingit, Raven-T’akdeintaan Clan whose family is from Hoonah and Tenakee, Alaska. Her interests lie in... More
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Larissa Nez (Diné) is of the Mud People and born for the Mountain Cove People. Her maternal grandfather is of the Red Running into the Water People and her paternal grandfather is of the Big Water People. She was born and raised in... More
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Lisa is a strange gal with a passion for all things trash. She is interested in race, waste, data, and how their relationships to one another shape the roles of non-‘human’ racialized subjects in social movements. She received her B.A from the... More
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Gregoria (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She holds a B.A. in History & Theater Arts from UC Santa Cruz (2013), an M.A. in History from the University of Chicago (2017), and an M.A.... More
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Alan Pelaez Lopez earned a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.
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David is a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies and a recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. He holds an MA in Ethnic Studies (2019) from the department and an AB in Sociology (2017) from Vassar College. His research interests include:... More
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Melanie Z. Plasencia studies how race, ethnicity, class and gender affect the experiences of historically marginalized older adults in the United States. In her dissertation, Melanie explores the lives of older Latina/o/xs in order to understand how they envision, as well as... More
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Abraham Ramirez is a PhD. Candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Program in Critical Theory. His dissertation is on the philosophy of race and consciousness in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and bell hooks. Abraham is... More
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Sonia’s research finds that mainstream psychiatric modes of diagnosing people who are identified as Latinx carry racialized, gendered, and sexualized notions of psychopathology among people of color. In particular, this work looks at “cultural concepts of distress” (CCDs), such as Ataque de Nervios,... More
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Derek Wu is a PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley (Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies). He uses sociological methods to research neighborhood change and secularism as a political doctrine in the S.F. Bay Area, focusing on... More
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