Erica Aghedo Harvard University I am a sophomore (rising junior) at Harvard College. As a social studies concentrator, I love my program of studies because it is multidisciplinary and allows me to dabble in courses of almost every other social science and humanities programs. I have lived in northern New Jersey for about eight years. In high school, I was very involved with community service projects, student government, and founded my high school’s political association. In college, I have striven to continue with public service, working as a mentor to younger children and fellow peers. I also write for the Harvard Political Review and currently serve on its editorial board as the Special Projects Director. In addition, I am a board member of the Harvard Caribbean Club, an organization that aims to create awareness of Caribbean culture on campus. Some of the social issues I care very deeply about are educational disparities between different socio-economic and ethnic groups, women’s issues, and the impact of American foreign policies on its racial minorities and/or immigration policies. In my spare time, I love spending time with my family and friends.
Jane Bernstein Yale University Jane Bernstein grew up in suburban Maryland before making New Haven her home. She will be entering her senior year at Yale University this fall, majoring in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. She hopes to pursue a joint degree in medicine and public health upon graduation. While at Yale, she has developed the New Haven Public Schools Cultural Awareness Program, a project which brings over twenty cultural groups from campus into nine local schools. During these presentations, students learn about different cultures and discuss how stereotypes and generalizations affect our interactions with people from different backgrounds. She also serves on the Executive Committee of Yale's student-run community service organization. For the past two summers, Jane has worked in biomedical labs researching non-coding RNA and its affect on psychiatric disorders. This summer, she is working at AIDS Action in Washington, DC, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of effective policies responding to HIV/AIDS. Her interests include racial and ethnic disparities in accessing medical treatment. She hopes to one day become involved in developing health policy in America.
AZ Biazar University of California, Los Angeles I am a native of Los Angeles, California, and am currently a rising senior at UCLA. I was the first underclassman elected as Student Body President in my high school's forty-three year history, and also served as Student Representative on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. At UCLA, I work with the Early Academic Outreach Program as an advisor and mentor to at-risk high school students throughout Los Angeles. I have a strong passion for bridging the social inequities that exist in our society, and am currently in Washington, DC, lobbying the federal government for increased outreach and financial aid funding. I am also researching how elite colleges and universities work to attract and retain qualified minority students within the confines of the law, and the effectiveness of affirmative action and outreach as means to achieve this end. This will serve as the foundation for my senior honors thesis in which I will explore the political ramifications of minorities in higher education. This summer, I am putting together the final plans to found a new student outreach group dedicated to working with students at a younger age than the current model. I am very excited to be selected as a Galbraith Scholar, and am looking forward to meeting others who share my interest in issues of inequality and social policy.
Daniel Blanco New York University Originally from Miami, Daniel Blanco is the son of Cuban immigrants and has three brothers and two sisters. Daniel is a recent graduate of the Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work at New York University, where he was president of both the Student Government Association and the Students of Color Society. Besides graduating magna cum laude, he was a University Honors Scholar, a Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar, a recipient of the Founders’ Day Award, and a recipient of the 2004 President’s Service Award for Leadership. In addition to working for two prominent law firms and writing for The Miami Herald, he spent three semesters interning at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (KCDA) Counseling Services Unit in Brooklyn NY, working primarily with victims of domestic violence and sex crimes. After discovering that many of the Spanish-speaking clients he served at the KCDA often complained of difficulties in navigating the legal justice system, he became interested in how language barriers create inequalities in the level of service crime victims receive. Ultimately, he hopes to hold a position at a company that operates on a global scale helping immigrants and refugees before continuing on to law school.
Oluwabusayo (Tope) Folarin Morehouse College As a freshman at Morehouse, Tope cofounded Project Three Circles, collaboration between Morehouse, the University of Texas El-Paso, and Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota that aimed to intensively study racism and race-based college admissions policies from a cooperative front. As a sophomore, armed with a Benjamin Mays Fellowship, Tope studied at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine for a year before traveling to South Africa with a grant provided by the International Human Rights Exchange, and the Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College. While in South Africa, Tope studied human rights at the University of Cape Town, and worked with the research and advocacy arm of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL) in downtown Cape Town where he interviewed members of the South African Parliament about their reluctance to enshrine anti-child prostitution laws within the South African constitution, and aided in the development of HIV/AIDS training clinics for rural South Africans. During the summer of 2003, Tope interned with the Congressional Research Service in Washington DC, and coauthored two publications for Congress - the first intern in his division to do so. During his senior year, Tope worked in the executive office of the national headquarters of CARE USA in Atlanta, Georgia, where, amongst other things, he researched the effects of genetically modified organisms on the economies of developing countries. Tope also served as a teaching assistant in the Political Science department at Morehouse. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tope graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in political science this past May, and will be studying politics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford this fall.
Tomás García Yale University Tomás García of Albuquerque, NM, will be a senior at Yale University this fall. He is majoring in Political Science and is completing an interdisciplinary concentration in Urban Studies. His interests in urban planning, land use, and economic development, have been informed by the wide array of social issues affecting cities today. During the summer of 2003, Tomás observed how social policy directly affects urban development. As a Yale University President’s Public Service Fellow, he worked in the City of New Haven’s City Plan Department researching commercial activity and implementing design standards for an overlay development project in one of New Haven’s most economically depressed and racially segregated neighborhoods. His challenge was to encourage commercial investment into the neighborhood to reverse the damage done by discriminatory housing policies of prior decades. Tomás plans to continue studying the far-reaching effects of inequality and social policy in order to better understand how to negotiate their associated challenges in urban areas. He plans to pursue a joint degree in law and public policy in the future. For his senior essay at Yale, Tomás will study the metropolitan region encompassing El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua to consider how the international divide affects the culture, environment, and politics of a bi-national metropolis.
Jessica Goldman Wellesley College My name is Jessica Goldman, and I am a rising junior at Wellesley College majoring in Latin American Studies and Sociology. I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. I am a fifth generation El Pasoan. I have three younger sisters, Shauna (17), Alyssa (15), and Molly (8). My interests are focused around issues facing the US-Mexico border region, especially women's rights. I love to travel, and have spent some time in Latin America during my time at Wellesley. This past January, I studied in Havana, Cuba through a Wellesley program. Last summer, I had a ten-week internship at the Costa Rican North American Chamber of Commerce in San Jose, Costa Rica, that focused on issues surrounding CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement). Over the past year, I have been studying the murders of women in Juarez, Mexico. It was a very touching experience to meet with victims families in northern Mexico. I will be living in Boston and interning at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center this summer. In the future, I hope to be an educator and activist in El Paso. I hope to brainstorm ideas for my senior thesis. I look forward to meeting everyone!
Jonathan Lennon Boston College After his freshman year at Boston College, Lennon founded BICSO (Boston Intercollegiate Service Organization), a non-profit devoted to engaging college students in public health and education related volunteer work. A political science major and history minor with a pre-law concentration, Jon has been a long-time American Cancer Society Volunteer, interned for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, researched at the World Health Organization, and does volunteer work in Central America, where he started an education and leadership development program for Honduran youth. Jon hopes to pursue a career in public policy, striving to help America realize equal opportunity in education and impartiality in public health. His extracurricular interests include marathon running, creative writing, and language studies.
Karl Procaccini Harvard University Karl Procaccini is a Social Studies major at Harvard from Mystic, Connecticut. He has spent much of his time as an undergraduate studying social inequality in economics, government, and sociology courses. He has researched bias in the electorate, the history of American estate taxation, and the effect of union decline on inequality. Next year, he will be writing his senior thesis on presidential rhetoric concerning class. He is interested in the ways that presidents shape, react to, and frame issues surrounding economic inequality. Karl spent the summer of 2003 in Washington, D.C. working in Joe Lieberman’s senate office. In his sophomore year he was a member of a research team working on Al Franken’s book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. He has spent his free time playing trumpet in various groups on campus including the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and a mariachi band. He plays in Harvard's "Monday Jazz Band," and is also a volunteer ESL teacher.
Derrick Raphael Princeton University Greetings from Fayetteville, North Carolina home of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. As many of you have probably picked up from my introduction, I am a military brat. I am a rising Junior at Princeton University majoring in sociology with a Caribbean concentration. My connection to the Caribbean stems from my father being born and raised in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. I spent the spring semester of my sophomore year at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. It was an AWESOME experience to say the least. Although I studied in Jamaica for the semester, I will be returning during the first week of July to conduct research on my junior paper, “The Effects of Globalization on the Development of Identity in the Caribbean.” My summer will conclude with my position as a resident advisor for the Freshmen Scholars Institute at Princeton where I will give tours to prospective students. I am honored to be selected for this program. I look forward to meeting all of you and maintaining close ties after the program has ended. I wish you all a safe trip.
Mark Robinson Northwestern University In a recent documentary on the Anthropology of the body, Mark Robinson, a senior at Northwestern, explores issues relating to globalization, pharmaceuticalization and the commodification and politicization of bodies through social and market phenomena. The economic agenda(s) of pharmaceutical industries is placed critically in the politics of inequality inherent in HIV prevalence as a class issue. Poverty and the spread of AIDS is still seen as linked, as are high risk behaviors, with few attempts to examine the disease within the underlying context of social inequality and issues of globalization, social stratification, wealth and its subsequent manifestations of power and identity. As a linguist, Mark Robinson has conducted much work about power discourses, especially as they pertain to Health disparities. Recently, he conducted an in-depth ethnography to uncover the ways in which pharmaceutical advertisements for Anti-retroviral therapies produced a specific representation of HIV/AIDS and how that representation affected the various meanings associated with the disease.
This summer, Mark Robinson is working with Dr. Rani Eversley as part of a Medical Anthropology Summer Research Program exploring intervention models for Community Based Organizations targeting GLBT youth of Color in Oakland, California. Also, Mark is working on a research project with Dr. Peter Lin, of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies of Columbia University on issues of Acculturation and knowledge about HIV for Taiwanese Immigrants. The culmination of this work, hopefully, will contribute to scholarship on acculturation studies and also to that of sociomedical sciences. Mark Robinson hopes to complete doctoral work in Medical Anthropology or Cultural Anthropology and is presently affiliated with the National Association of Student Anthropologists, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and Student board member of the Executive Board of the Central States Anthropological Society. This past semester, when not commuting weekly between Chicago and New York City, Mark maintained a full time job, volunteer work and a full time class load. Mark is excited about the opportunity to participate in the Galbraith Program and is excited about interacting with the other participants and faculty within the program.
Abigail Rosas Stanford University Abigail Rosas was born and raised in South Los Angeles, California, and is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. As the daughter of working class Mexican immigrant parents, she has experienced first-hand the gendered and transnational costs of living in an impoverished ethnic enclave. Moreover it is her lived experience that has inspired her commitment towards exploring the many ways immigrant women and men understand the meaning and content of citizenship, gender, ethnicity, and race in the United States. She has pursued her interest in ace and
gender and ethnic politics by working as an intern and volunteer at several community outreach institutes committed to serving the needs of impoverished families in northern and southern California, as well as by researching the race relations in the southern California communities of Compton and South Los Angeles. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship and by the Stanford Chappell-Lougee Fellowship.
Ebunoluwa Taiwo Ohio State University Ebunoluwa A. Taiwo studied Political Science, African and African-American Studies, and French at Ohio State University. As an intern in the Department of Justice’s Coordination and Review Section, L’Afrique Conseil (Paris, France), and in the Department of Labor, Ebun worked on various issues involving anti-discrimination policies and language access. A Truman Scholar, Ebun is currently studying international politics and public policy at Sciences Po. In her spare time (whenever that is) Ebun enjoys writing, singing, as well as playing tennis, table tennis, and basketball with family and friends.
Laura Williams Cornell University Laura Williams is from the United States Virgin Islands. She is a 2004 graduate of Cornell University with a major in English and concentrations in Women Studies and Philosophy. Laura attended the “Cornell in Rome Summer Writing Workshop” in the summer of 2002, received Cum Laude honors for her Thesis on Richard Wright which gives a critical analysis on lynching in America, was selected as one of two student board members for the Women Studies Department “Steering Committee” in 2003-2004 and served for two years on its “Undergraduate Affairs Committee”.
I am a sophomore (rising junior) at Harvard College. As a social studies concentrator, I love my program of studies because it is multidisciplinary and allows me to dabble in courses of almost every other social science and humanities programs. I have lived in northern New Jersey for about eight years. In high school, I was very involved with community service projects, student government, and founded my high school’s political association. In college, I have striven to continue with public service, working as a mentor to younger children and fellow peers. I also write for the Harvard Political Review and currently serve on its editorial board as the Special Projects Director. In addition, I am a board member of the Harvard Caribbean Club, an organization that aims to create awareness of Caribbean culture on campus. Some of the social issues I care very deeply about are educational disparities between different socio-economic and ethnic groups, women’s issues, and the impact of American foreign policies on its racial minorities and/or immigration policies. In my spare time, I love spending time with my family and friends. 
Jane Bernstein grew up in suburban Maryland before making New Haven her home. She will be entering her senior year at Yale University this fall, majoring in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. She hopes to pursue a joint degree in medicine and public health upon graduation. While at Yale, she has developed the New Haven Public Schools Cultural Awareness Program, a project which brings over twenty cultural groups from campus into nine local schools. During these presentations, students learn about different cultures and discuss how stereotypes and generalizations affect our interactions with people from different backgrounds. She also serves on the Executive Committee of Yale's student-run community service organization. For the past two summers, Jane has worked in biomedical labs researching non-coding RNA and its affect on psychiatric disorders. This summer, she is working at AIDS Action in Washington, DC, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of effective policies responding to HIV/AIDS. Her interests include racial and ethnic disparities in accessing medical treatment. She hopes to one day become involved in developing health policy in America. 
I am a native of Los Angeles, California, and am currently a rising senior at UCLA. I was the first underclassman elected as Student Body President in my high school's forty-three year history, and also served as Student Representative on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. At UCLA, I work with the Early Academic Outreach Program as an advisor and mentor to at-risk high school students throughout Los Angeles. I have a strong passion for bridging the social inequities that exist in our society, and am currently in Washington, DC, lobbying the federal government for increased outreach and financial aid funding. I am also researching how elite colleges and universities work to attract and retain qualified minority students within the confines of the law, and the effectiveness of affirmative action and outreach as means to achieve this end. This will serve as the foundation for my senior honors thesis in which I will explore the political ramifications of minorities in higher education. This summer, I am putting together the final plans to found a new student outreach group dedicated to working with students at a younger age than the current model. I am very excited to be selected as a Galbraith Scholar, and am looking forward to meeting others who share my interest in issues of inequality and social policy.
Originally from Miami, Daniel Blanco is the son of Cuban immigrants and has three brothers and two sisters. Daniel is a recent graduate of the Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work at New York University, where he was president of both the Student Government Association and the Students of Color Society. Besides graduating magna cum laude, he was a University Honors Scholar, a Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar, a recipient of the Founders’ Day Award, and a recipient of the 2004 President’s Service Award for Leadership. In addition to working for two prominent law firms and writing for The Miami Herald, he spent three semesters interning at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (KCDA) Counseling Services Unit in Brooklyn NY, working primarily with victims of domestic violence and sex crimes. After discovering that many of the Spanish-speaking clients he served at the KCDA often complained of difficulties in navigating the legal justice system, he became interested in how language barriers create inequalities in the level of service crime victims receive. Ultimately, he hopes to hold a position at a company that operates on a global scale helping immigrants and refugees before continuing on to law school. 
As a freshman at Morehouse, Tope cofounded Project Three Circles, collaboration between Morehouse, the University of Texas El-Paso, and Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota that aimed to intensively study racism and race-based college admissions policies from a cooperative front. As a sophomore, armed with a Benjamin Mays Fellowship, Tope studied at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine for a year before traveling to South Africa with a grant provided by the International Human Rights Exchange, and the Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College. While in South Africa, Tope studied human rights at the University of Cape Town, and worked with the research and advocacy arm of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL) in downtown Cape Town where he interviewed members of the South African Parliament about their reluctance to enshrine anti-child prostitution laws within the South African constitution, and aided in the development of HIV/AIDS training clinics for rural South Africans. During the summer of 2003, Tope interned with the Congressional Research Service in Washington DC, and coauthored two publications for Congress - the first intern in his division to do so. During his senior year, Tope worked in the executive office of the national headquarters of CARE USA in Atlanta, Georgia, where, amongst other things, he researched the effects of genetically modified organisms on the economies of developing countries. Tope also served as a teaching assistant in the Political Science department at Morehouse. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tope graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in political science this past May, and will be studying politics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford this fall. 
Tomás García of Albuquerque, NM, will be a senior at Yale University this fall. He is majoring in Political Science and is completing an interdisciplinary concentration in Urban Studies. His interests in urban planning, land use, and economic development, have been informed by the wide array of social issues affecting cities today. During the summer of 2003, Tomás observed how social policy directly affects urban development. As a Yale University President’s Public Service Fellow, he worked in the City of New Haven’s City Plan Department researching commercial activity and implementing design standards for an overlay development project in one of New Haven’s most economically depressed and racially segregated neighborhoods. His challenge was to encourage commercial investment into the neighborhood to reverse the damage done by discriminatory housing policies of prior decades. Tomás plans to continue studying the far-reaching effects of inequality and social policy in order to better understand how to negotiate their associated challenges in urban areas. He plans to pursue a joint degree in law and public policy in the future. For his senior essay at Yale, Tomás will study the metropolitan region encompassing El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua to consider how the international divide affects the culture, environment, and politics of a bi-national metropolis. 
My name is Jessica Goldman, and I am a rising junior at Wellesley College majoring in Latin American Studies and Sociology. I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. I am a fifth generation El Pasoan. I have three younger sisters, Shauna (17), Alyssa (15), and Molly (8). My interests are focused around issues facing the US-Mexico border region, especially women's rights. I love to travel, and have spent some time in Latin America during my time at Wellesley. This past January, I studied in Havana, Cuba through a Wellesley program. Last summer, I had a ten-week internship at the Costa Rican North American Chamber of Commerce in San Jose, Costa Rica, that focused on issues surrounding CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement). Over the past year, I have been studying the murders of women in Juarez, Mexico. It was a very touching experience to meet with victims families in northern Mexico. I will be living in Boston and interning at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center this summer. In the future, I hope to be an educator and activist in El Paso. I hope to brainstorm ideas for my senior thesis. I look forward to meeting everyone! 
After his freshman year at Boston College, Lennon founded BICSO (Boston Intercollegiate Service Organization), a non-profit devoted to engaging college students in public health and education related volunteer work. A political science major and history minor with a pre-law concentration, Jon has been a long-time American Cancer Society Volunteer, interned for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, researched at the World Health Organization, and does volunteer work in Central America, where he started an education and leadership development program for Honduran youth. Jon hopes to pursue a career in public policy, striving to help America realize equal opportunity in education and impartiality in public health. His extracurricular interests include marathon running, creative writing, and language studies. 
Karl Procaccini is a Social Studies major at Harvard from Mystic, Connecticut. He has spent much of his time as an undergraduate studying social inequality in economics, government, and sociology courses. He has researched bias in the electorate, the history of American estate taxation, and the effect of union decline on inequality. Next year, he will be writing his senior thesis on presidential rhetoric concerning class. He is interested in the ways that presidents shape, react to, and frame issues surrounding economic inequality. Karl spent the summer of 2003 in Washington, D.C. working in Joe Lieberman’s senate office. In his sophomore year he was a member of a research team working on Al Franken’s book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. He has spent his free time playing trumpet in various groups on campus including the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and a mariachi band. He plays in Harvard's "Monday Jazz Band," and is also a volunteer ESL teacher. 
Greetings from Fayetteville, North Carolina home of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. As many of you have probably picked up from my introduction, I am a military brat. I am a rising Junior at Princeton University majoring in sociology with a Caribbean concentration. My connection to the Caribbean stems from my father being born and raised in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. I spent the spring semester of my sophomore year at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. It was an AWESOME experience to say the least. Although I studied in Jamaica for the semester, I will be returning during the first week of July to conduct research on my junior paper, “The Effects of Globalization on the Development of Identity in the Caribbean.” My summer will conclude with my position as a resident advisor for the Freshmen Scholars Institute at Princeton where I will give tours to prospective students. I am honored to be selected for this program. I look forward to meeting all of you and maintaining close ties after the program has ended. I wish you all a safe trip. 
In a recent documentary on the Anthropology of the body, Mark Robinson, a senior at Northwestern, explores issues relating to globalization, pharmaceuticalization and the commodification and politicization of bodies through social and market phenomena. The economic agenda(s) of pharmaceutical industries is placed critically in the politics of inequality inherent in HIV prevalence as a class issue. Poverty and the spread of AIDS is still seen as linked, as are high risk behaviors, with few attempts to examine the disease within the underlying context of social inequality and issues of globalization, social stratification, wealth and its subsequent manifestations of power and identity. As a linguist, Mark Robinson has conducted much work about power discourses, especially as they pertain to Health disparities. Recently, he conducted an in-depth ethnography to uncover the ways in which pharmaceutical advertisements for Anti-retroviral therapies produced a specific representation of HIV/AIDS and how that representation affected the various meanings associated with the disease.
Abigail Rosas was born and raised in South Los Angeles, California, and is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. As the daughter of working class Mexican immigrant parents, she has experienced first-hand the gendered and transnational costs of living in an impoverished ethnic enclave. Moreover it is her lived experience that has inspired her commitment towards exploring the many ways immigrant women and men understand the meaning and content of citizenship, gender, ethnicity, and race in the United States. She has pursued her interest in ace and 
Ebunoluwa A. Taiwo studied Political Science, African and African-American Studies, and French at Ohio State University. As an intern in the Department of Justice’s Coordination and Review Section, L’Afrique Conseil (Paris, France), and in the Department of Labor, Ebun worked on various issues involving anti-discrimination policies and language access. A Truman Scholar, Ebun is currently studying international politics and public policy at Sciences Po. In her spare time (whenever that is) Ebun enjoys writing, singing, as well as playing tennis, table tennis, and basketball with family and friends.
Laura Williams is from the United States Virgin Islands. She is a 2004 graduate of Cornell University with a major in English and concentrations in Women Studies and Philosophy. Laura attended the “Cornell in Rome Summer Writing Workshop” in the summer of 2002, received Cum Laude honors for her Thesis on Richard Wright which gives a critical analysis on lynching in America, was selected as one of two student board members for the Women Studies Department “Steering Committee” in 2003-2004 and served for two years on its “Undergraduate Affairs Committee”. 