Anthony Berryhill
Stanford University
Anthony Berryhill is a Stanford University junior (upcoming senior) majoring in political science and taking classes in the psychology and ethics departments. He will be doing an honors thesis in the Ethics in Society program analyzing civil rights legislation by the Supreme Court. Before Stanford, Anthony spent his high school time in the inner city of New Orleans, LA. He is a graduate of the outreach program Summerbridge (now called Breakthrough Collaborative) and has spent the past few years as a student and coach of high school Lincoln-Douglas debate—often researching and discussing issues of social policy and inequality.
Michael Brown
Stanford University
Michael Brown II was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida as a military brat. He traveled significantly with his mother until the age of 11 (FL, OH, Germany, MD, VA, LA), when he moved with his father's side of the family because of the excessive travel needs placed on his single mother. Since then, he has been living in South Central, Los Angeles with his Grandmother. His experiences in South Central Los Angeles got him interested in issues of community, social stratification, and equality. For high school, he had the opportunity to attend the California Academy of Math and Science which prepared him well to enter into Stanford University. During High School he was involved in the student government (pres), Swim Team (co-captain), Black Student Alliance, and a number of other activities. At Stanford University, Michael is a rising junior with a double major in Afro-American studies and Political Science. He has participated in the Black Student Union, ASSU, and is currently conducting research through the Chappell Lougee Scholars program on Black Leadership.
Yariella Coello
Northwestern University
A native of Tampa Bay and a Florida girl at heart, Yariella is now a rising senior at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is a sociology major who also plays an active role in her community. She is part of a mentoring program at the nearby Y.M.C.A. in which she tutors and spends time with many at-risk youth, in addition to volunteering at a community soup kitchen. Academically, Yariella is interested in a variety of social issues, most especially homelessness, poverty, and interracial relations. Last summer, she worked as a research assistant to Professor James Cavendish at the University of South Florida. This summer she plans to develop her senior thesis, which is likely to deal with homelessness in the Chicagoland area. Just for fun, Yariella also plans to spend her summer enjoying the beautiful (although infrequent) Chicago sun, partaking in some
of her favorite activities: reading, oil and watercolor painting, running, and going to the beach. In the future, she hopes to attend graduate school and attain a doctoral degree in sociology and social policy. Meanwhile, she is extremely excited about the Galbraith Scholars Summer Program and is looking forward to meeting everyone!
Porsha Cropper
Stanford University
Porsha Cropper was born in 1983 in South Central, Los Angeles and graduated from Crenshaw High School. She is currently finishing up her sophomore year at Stanford University, where she is pursuing degrees in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) and Sociology. The profound racial, economic, and social inequities that exist in South Central ignited her passion for studying issues of inequality in society. As a child, she remembers visiting her mother's job in Beverly Hills and asking why these communities looked so different. Of course, Beverly Hills is primarily concentrated with people of high incomes, but what interested her most was the lack of minority groups in this city. She became especially interested in understanding the factors that precipitated such levels of neighborhood segregation in Los Angeles. What caused the massive decline of her own community? Why do such great disparities exist between these two communities? Why is the ghetto primarily concentrated with lower class minorities? After realizing that she did not want to pursue a degree in Human Biology during her freshman year, Porsha started to return to these same questions. She began taking classes from an array of disciplines - History, Sociology, Political Science- that sought to provide different perspectives on the factors that contributed to urban decline in America's inner cities. These interests led her to major in CSRE and Sociology. During the summer of her freshman year, Porsha had an opportunity to work with Professor Al Camarillo in the History Department studying race and ethnic relations between African Americans and Latinos in Compton. In the future, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology, influencing the hearts and minds of students in issues of inequality in American society.
Erin Henry
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Erin Henry was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From an early age, she describes being encouraged to participate in various community service projects and to learn as much as possible from the experience. Engaging in community service opened her eyes to the different types of people that share this world. She has found these experiences to be fun, challenging and thought-provoking. Currently, Erin is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a double major in economics and international political economy and policy studies. Erin has a strong interest in urban school reform and education policy. The research with which she been involved this past year has focused on the impact of early intervention childhood education on a cohort of 1500 at-risk students from Chicago. The study is in its 17th year, so Erin helped to collect data and examine the economic effect of early intervention childhood education on the study’s participants, who are now young adults. In addition to education research, she is very active in several organizations that encourage middle and high school students of color to pursue higher education. This summer, Erin has an internship as a Minority Business Development Intern. She has an interest in minority and disadvantaged business policy and how these business policies affect (both positively and negatively) minority communities. In her free time (which isn’t much time at all!), she enjoys going to coffee shops, dancing, watching foreign and 80s films, reading and hanging out with friends (“I believe I have recently found my new favorite food during exam week: Hagen Daaz sorbet”). Erin adds: “I am VERY excited about meeting the 13 other Galbraith Scholars: I always find it refreshing to interact with my peers that have similar interests. I hope this experience will help me to further define my career goals, as it relates to public service and policy.” As of now, Erin plans to obtain a Masters in public affairs with an emphasis on economic development combined with a law degree or an MBA.
Joseph Kim
University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Kim is a senior at the University of California at Berkeley majoring
in Political Science. Joseph has been active in a variety of service
activities that concern issues of inequality and social policy, including
work with the homeless, refugees, AIDS orphans, and underprivileged middle
and high school students. After graduation, he hopes to pursue graduate
studies in law and/or public policy and political science.
Andrew Klaber
Yale University
Andrew Klaber (Buffalo Grove, Illinois) is a junior at Yale University majoring in Ethics, Politics, & Economics and International Studies. Spending the summer of 2002 in Thailand, Andrew founded the international NGO Orphans Against AIDS (www.orphansagainstaids.org), a nonprofit that provides academic scholarships to youths from the Chiang Mai province whose parents have died of AIDS (200 Thai children will receive educational scholarships for the 2003-2004 school year). As a result of his humanitarian work with AIDS orphans, Andrew was appointed to the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned & other Vulnerable Children this summer. Klaber also serves as president of the Little Economists Program, an organization that advocates the value of entrepreneurial and consumer skills to underprivileged junior high school students in New Haven through both formal classroom lessons and hands-on work experience. During the summer of 2001, Klaber bicycled 4,200 miles (from New Haven to San Francisco) over a period of nine weeks to raise awareness and $250,000 for Habitat for Humanity of New Haven (enough money to construct five houses). Andrew also rows on the Yale varsity lightweight crew (2002 national champions), where he volunteers with the Yale Community Rowing Program, teaching the fundamentals of crew to traditionally underrepresented minorities in the sport. Klaber received the President’s Environmental Youth Award from George W. Bush and Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, at the White House in April 2001, was selected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and currently serves as Yale PBK chapter president. Klaber has also been named a 2003 Harry S. Truman scholar, a 2003 USA Today Academic All-American, a 2002 & 2003 Morris K. Udall Scholar, and a 2002 Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Scholar. After college, Andrew hopes to pursue a joint MBA/JD program and symbiotically merge the profit-driven incentives of the private sector with humanitarian aid efforts in the philanthropic sector.
Edgar A. Morales
University of Texas, Austin
A native of El Paso, Texas, Edgar is a junior at the University of Texas at Austin studying Government. His interests include nationalism, racial inequality, residential segregation, political violence and human rights. He has interned with a variety of organizations including the Washington Office on Latin America, the Texas Democratic Party and the UT Austin Population Research Center. This year he will intern with the federal government and will study at Oxford University. Upon graduation in May 2004, he plans to pursue a joint degree in law and public policy.
César Moreno
University of California, Berkeley
Born and raised in Arvin, a small city in California’s central valley, César Moreno will graduate this year with a dual degree in Political Science and History from the University of California Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he has been on the dean’s list and has also been recognized as a National Hispanic Scholar and National Collegiate Scholar. César’s public service has primarily focused on historically disadvantaged and underprivileged communities. He has worked with RAZA Recruitment and Retention Center, the César Chavez Student Learning Center, and Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity Inc. in their recruitment and retention programs. He’s particularly enjoyed working with students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the East Bay as an academic tutor and mentor. During the summer, Cesar has participated in the University of California Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute (UCPPIA) at Berkeley, as well as the Civil Rights Summer (CRS). CRS, a fellowship co-sponsored by the Harvard Civil Rights Research Project and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, is designed for student advocates dedicated to creating social change. While a CRS fellow, César interned at the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, the Latino constituency group of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). His studies and travel abroad have taken him to South Africa, Spain, Cuba and Mexico. César is the youngest of six children and hopes to return to his community one day and help address prevalent issues currently affecting his community such as immigration, farm workers rights, housing and education equity.
Jeffrey Mueller
Yale University
Jeffrey Mueller has spent most of his life living in the New Haven area and is currently a Political Science major at Yale University. He will be entering my senior year in the fall and plans to continue his education after college, pursuing his interest in social policy issues by doing graduate work in law and political science. He has worked as a research assistant for professors in the department, investigating the effects of democracy on the distribution of income and wealth in the United States and he has- helped to conduct interviews with congressmen and lobbyists in connection with this project. In addition, his research interests include the effect of racial prejudice and intolerance on the criminal justice system. Jeff also enjoys participating in sports and community service activities in the greater New Haven area.
Dominic Nahas
University of California, Riverside
Dominic Nahas was born and raised in Riverside, California. He will graduate from the University of California, Riverside with a degree in History and a minor in Latin American Studies. His senior Honors Thesis: “ Subnational Politics, A Social Welfare Program And Its Causal Relationship to the Rebellion In Chiapas”, focused on local politics in Chiapas, Mexico and its effect on the implementation of the anti-poverty program PRONASOL between 1988-1994. As a member of the men’s golf team, collegiate athletics played an important role throughout his college career. Dominic was employed at the Learning Center at UCR as a peer counselor this year as well. In his spare time, he volunteers with Habitat for Humanity and participates in the Golden Arches Program, an advocacy group on campus. This summer Dominic will participate in the UCDC Washington Center Program and intern at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a research assistant working on Mexican public policy. Next year, he will travel to Mexico to do volunteer work. Also, he has applied for the Peace Corps and expects to leave in June of 2004. Dominic plans to go to graduate school and focus on either Latin American History, Latin American Studies, Economics or Political Science. Ultimately, he would like to focus on issues of global inequality. Dominic enjoys reading, listening to music, playing sports, dancing and watching movies.
Liselle Regis
Yale University
Liselle Regis is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, a small twin- island republic that is located in the Caribbean. She a rising Junior at Yale University, where she is pursuing a degree in Ethics, Politics and Economics. At Yale, Liselle is also actively involved in a variety of extra-curricular programs, including Habitat for Humanity, a variety of Catholic aid organizations, political groups and dance classes. She is especially interested in the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nations of the world today and is planning to focus her senior year research on social policy issues related to welfare reform, workforce development, poverty eradication and social integration. While not entirely sure of her future career goals, Liselle does intend to continue her studies in the field of social policy. Her aim is to work within the field of policy analysis and advocacy in order to help research and develop concrete policy recommendations and practical measures that address the concerns of the poor in developing countries.
Nick Rodriguez
Stanford University
Nick Rodriguez is a third year student in the Public Policy program at Stanford University, where he will be pursuing a co-terminal masters' degree in International Policy Studies next year. Nick's primary interests are in education policy; he has served as a classroom teacher and leadership trainer for youth in schools from Oakland, CA to Aomori, Japan and believes
that education is the single most important policy tool available to combat social and economic inequality. This work is reflected in his thesis-in-progress, which proposes an economic model of returns to education spending across different school districts. Nick has combined his policy passion with his interest in government and politics to found a nonprofit organization, Educational Democracy for Youth, which provides hands-on civics education training to students from disenfranchised communities. It is through these kinds of pursuits that Nick hopes to make a contribution to the world some day, but his exact plans for the future are open to a great deal of change.
Josh Tetrick
Cornell University
Josh Tetrick was born in Birmingham, Alabama and moved to Philadelphia when he was seven years old. After a life he describes as having too few role models, Josh has aggressively pursued opportunities to affect the lives of children facing similar social and economic barriers. Josh has developed a program in his college dorm to collect change for children’s charities, helped tutor children in inner-city Philadelphia and rural West Virginia, and developed a broad scale sports program for mentally challenged young people in my community. His work in Washington D.C. during the past summer in the Office of Indian Education Programs focused on using early childhood education policies to increase opportunity for our nation’s most disadvantaged minority group. His special interest in fostering progress in Indian Country will continue this summer at the Wiener Center for Social Policy as an intern with the Harvard Project for American Indian Economic Development. At Cornell, Josh is a junior pursuing a joint degree in sociology and government along with a concentration in inequality and American Indian Studies. This summer, he will begin researching for a government thesis on South Africa’s economic inequalities, and sociology thesis on American Indian Economic Development. Josh will be the first undergraduate student to achieve the inequality concentration at Cornell because of his dedication to understanding both domestic and global inequalities. Following graduation, Josh intends to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology along with a J.D., and work in the public interest sector as a civil rights attorney.
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