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Cohorts 24-25 | 2024-2027

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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


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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


jonissy-kadima

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

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


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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

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

carly-aikens

Carly Aikens

Emory University – Cultural Anthropology & Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Devaka Premawardhana
Research Title:In God’s Hands: An Exploration of Faith as Protection and Protest in the Black Church
Research Interests: Black Religion, Cultural Anthropology, Neuroscience, Faith and Resistance, Black Church Traditions


laniah-bowdery

Laniah Bowdery

Emory University – African American Studies & Human Health BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels
Research Title: Reclamation and Empowerment: Black Women's Multiple Religious Allegiances to Ifá, Conjure, and Christianity
Research Interests: Africana Religions, Black Feminist Thought, Ethnography, Spirituality and Healing, Religious Syncretism


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Natalie García-Ramos

Emory University – History and Religion BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Devaka Premawardhana
Research Title:Social Conservatism, Religion, and the Nativist State: Latinos and White Christian Nationalism in the United States
Research Interests: Latinx Studies, Religion and Politics, Christian Nationalism, Social Conservatism, Race and Immigration


marjory-ignacio-almazan

Marjory Ignacio-Almazan

Emory University – English & History BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Geovani Ramirez
Research Topic:Analyzing and understanding how Latinx communities of liminal and undocumented legal status in North Carolina recognize, react to, and respond to moments of environmental injustice and systems of slow violence. 
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Latinx Studies, Immigration, American South, Literature and Social Change


minyon-jenkins

Minyon Jenkins

Emory University – Interdisciplinary Studies & Philosophy BA

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Calvin Warren
Research Title:What Counts? A Philosophical Inquiry into Knowledge, Power, and Data
Research Interests: Philosophy of Technology, Black and Queer Epistemologies, Technological Justice, Data Ethics, Digital Liberation