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)
- Chris Santizo-Malafronti '18
- Claudia Alegre, University of California, Los Angeles (Political Science)
- 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
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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