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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