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 public opinion. Her interests include Latino politics, interminority politics, and survey research. At UCLA, she served as a research assistant for Dr. Efrén Pérez. Her work has been published in Political Behavior and Research & Politics. Her award-winning senior thesis focuses on the conditions that facilitate political solidarity between people of color and how that affects the attitudes of minoritized groups. Currently, she is the Lab Manager for the Race, Ethnicity, Politics, and Society Lab (REPS) at UCLA and a fellow of the Society for Political Methodology Expansions Initiative. Ramos wants to use her future PhD in political science to teach, mentor, and research historically underrepresented communities.
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) is a fellowship competition for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds applying to or in the early stages of doctoral programs in political science. The DFP was established in 1969 (originally as the Black Graduate Fellowship) to increase the number of minority scholars in the discipline. This year’s funded fellows will receive $5,000, over two years to support their studies.