Current Fellows

Taylor Colorado Merino

Emory University – Sociology & Arabic BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yami Rodriguez
Research Title:Existir es Resistir: Liberation is a Creative Practice for Our Collective Survival
Research Interests: Relational Histories, Coalition Building, Cultural Production, Imagination and Resistance, Anti-Colonial and Anti-Imperial Thought, Black and Brown Solidarity, Palestinian Liberation, Creative Practices as Survival

M. Egberongbe

Emory University – African American Studies & Psychology BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erica Britt
Research Title:The Difference in the Salience of Transgender Identity Across the Black Diaspora
Research Interests: Black Trans Studies, Identity Salience, Comparative Diaspora Studies, Social Influence, Cultural Perception of Gender, Legal and Familial Impacts on Identity, Nigeria–U.S. Transnational Studies, Sociolinguistics and Psychology of Gender

Tshilobo "Jonissy" Kadima

Emory University – Philosophy, Politics, and Law & French BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Calvin Warren
Research Title:Intersectionality Unveiled: A Personal Exploration of Identity, Belonging, and its Limitations
Research Interests: Intersectionality, Organizing and Collective Struggle, Subaltern Identities, Decolonial Theory, Queer Theory, Beauty and Aesthetics, Critical Theory and Praxis, Identity and Belonging

Jaanaki Radhakrishnan

Emory University – Anthropology & Religion / Neuroethics (minor) BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kristin Phillips
Research Title:The Clearing: Nature Play as Black Liberation Methodology
Research Interests: Black Ecologies, Nature-Centered Play, Liberation Pedagogies, Black Childhood Studies, Ecowomanism, Abolitionist Imaginary, Decolonial Studies, Ethnography, Education Studies, Racial Colonial Capitalism

Sabrina Reyes

Emory University – Sociology / Film & Media Production (minor) BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yami Rodriguez
Research Title:Visualizing the Social-Cultural Impacts of Gentrification in Brooklyn
Research Interests: Gentrification, Urban Displacement, Black and Latinx Community Preservation, Ethnography, Oral Histories, Visual Storytelling, Cultural Memory, Brooklyn Studies, Community Making and Unmaking

Deanna Sharpe

Emory University – Human Health & Spanish and Linguistics BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gordon Ramsay
Research Title:Accent and Dialect Acquisition among Children with Autism Exposed to In-Home Social Language Variation
Research Interests:Accent/Dialect/Creole Acquisition, Bi/Multilingualism, Child Development, Disorders, Feminist Digital/Technology Studies, Language Acquisition/Variation/Violence, Health Communication, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, and Speech Science