Diversity Fellowship Program

Mengyuan (Johnny) Zheng is a senior at St. John’s University, majoring in government and politics with minors in theology and philosophy. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, he has conducted 3 independent research in authoritarian politics […]

Katha Sikka graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in government and minors in (1) creative writing and (2) law and society. She is currently the Healing and Justice Researcher at South Asian Americans Leading Together. […]

Jalen Ward is a second-year master’s student studying political science and government at California State University, Fullerton. Ward is a current Pa’lante Fellow and Grad Equity scholar at his campus. He splits his time working in […]

Devin Green graduated from the Community College of Baltimore County in 2020 and will graduate from Johns Hopkins University in Spring 2023 with a BA in political science. His research interests include collective action through organizing […]

Charitra Pabbaraju (she/they) is completing her MPhil in development studies at the University of Oxford, where her thesis explores the technological turn to the developmental state’s bureaucracy, with multiple and contradictory effects on ethnic violence and […]

Brianna DeMuth is a senior at Ohio Wesleyan University, double majoring in political science and environmental studies. At OWU, she was a student research assistant studying political protest waves and political repression. DeMuth also participated in […]

Benjamin Soto recently graduated with academic honors from Cal State Fullerton’s Master of Public Administration program. He earned a political science B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, in 2019. As an MPA student, Benjamin was […]

Alisson Ramos graduated from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with honors in political science and chicano/a studies. She is interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in racial and ethnic politics, focused on political behavior and […]