Camila Armas, Howard University
Camila Armas is a rising senior at Howard University majoring in political science with a minor in Spanish. She is a part of the inaugural cohort of the Howard Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars Program. Previously, Camila participated in Vanderbilt’s Accountability, Behavior, and Conflict in Democratic Politics REU under Dr. Sharece Thrower studying the effects of undocumented immigrant populations on state government political party partisanship. She was also a Mellon Mays Social Justice Consortium Fellow and research intern under Dr. Marcus Board investigating how urban youth of color in Washington, D.C. civically engage in response to youth curfew law. Currently, she is a Ronald W. Walters Leadership & Public Policy Center undergraduate research intern working under Dr. Elsie Scott, Dr. Gabby Gray, and Kettering Fellow Raven Ridgell, to create a toolkit for student civic engagement. On campus, Camila is an award-winning competitor for her school’s Model United Nations Team, a section writer for the Hilltop Student Newspaper, and a student organizer. After graduation, Camila plans to pursue a PhD in political science, focusing on sociopolitical development, American political development, political behavior, and REP. She wants to merge research, activism, and community work as an academic.
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