Current Fellows
Cohorts 24-25 | 2024-2027
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
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
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
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
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
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