Politics and Equal Participation Lab Members and Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Note: all advisory board members serve in their personal capacity, titles and affiliations are for informational purposes only.

• Nicole Bañales, Domestic Violence Case Manager at HIAS PA and MSW student at Bryn Mawr College
• Benjamin Berger, Associate Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College, and Executive Director of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. 
• Nina Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College, and Member of the The Graterford and Chester Think Tanks.
• Edwin Mayorga, Associate Professor of Education, Swarthmore College, and Director of the BarrioEdProject, the CSCP project, CritEdPol Journal and EthnicStudiesPHL. 
• Lara Putnam, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, co-lead of the Southwest PA Civic Resilience Initiative at the Pitt Disinfo Lab.
• Chaya Scott, Chief Aspiration Officer, Chaya Scott Consulting, LLC
• Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA).
• Alix Webb '92, Managing Director at Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and former Executive Director of Asian Americans United.

Current Lab Members

Graduate and Post-Baccalaureate Researchers

• Barbara Pham, University of California, Irvine (Sociology)
• Bernie DiGregorio, West Virginia University (Sociology)
• Brendan Carr, Sustainability & Engaged Scholarship Fellow
• Chris Santizo-Malafronti '18
• Claudia Alegre, University of California, Los Angeles (Political Science)
• Kelly Diaz, Post-Doctoral Fellow
• Lydia Orr, Temple University (Sociology)
• Mary Camuso '23
• Rachel Broun, Stanford University (Anthropology)

Undergraduate Researchers

• Annette Kim ‘24
• Augustella Makiese '25
• Ben Rotko ‘25
• Carolin Obispo '26
• Christopher Chen '26
• Clara Ximena '26
• Daniel Perrin '27
• Fatima Hmada '25
• Fatima Jahra '24
• Hannah Breithaupt '26
• Haoyu Wang '26
• Hoang "Tommy" Vu '24
• Justin Chai '24
• Kaj Tug Lee '25
• Kyyia Ford '27
• Yi "Lore" Wu '26
• Monica Guzman '25
• Nicole Padron '25
• Sahiba Tandon ‘25
• Samira Begum '25
• Tammy Lam '24
• Zack Kreines '25
• Zak Vilanilam '26

Community-Based Researcher Advisory Council

• Bianca Gonzales
• Ella Vetter '22
• Felisa Adderly
• Jennifer Ross
• Muzammal Afzal

Collaborators

• Ankit Rastogi, Independent Scholar

Alumni (Swarthmore and Community-based)

• Aidan Williams
• Ali Gleaves ‘23
• Angus Lam (‘20)
• Benjamin Perez
• Bianca Gonzales 
• Brandon Shi (‘20)
• Connor Barrett ‘24
• Darid Prom ‘24
• Ella Vetter ‘22
• Fawaz Alhumaidi
• Felisa Adderly    
• Gabby Cosey ‘23
• Gabi Rubinstein (‘20)
• Jennifer C Ross
• Jimmy Pham ‘23
• Jinia Meherin ‘23
• Lena Massengale ‘25        
• Millie Amilcar (‘20)
• Muzammal Afzal
• Nancy Vu ‘24
• Natalia Abbate ‘23
• Nicole Banales (‘18)
• Odalys Peralta Rios
• Owen Mortner ‘23
• Nora Sweeney ‘24
• Ronisha Westbrook
• Samaria Turner
• Sophie Peterson ‘23