Autumn Bachofen
Autumn Bachofen is a third-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences and Kilachand Honors College on the pre-law track studying Philosophy and Political Science. Autumn has lived in Colorado, France, and Switzerland, and after graduating in 2021, took a gap year to explore France where she was employed at the US Embassy in […]
Shandra Back
Shandra Back is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the College of Communications and Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. She is majoring in Journalism with a minor in Political Science. Her work in migration and forced displacement has taken her to parts of the Middle East, Latin America, and the U.S.–Mexico border. Her travel podcast, Sunshine on a […]
Rachel Barrientos
Rachel Barrientos is a third-year undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kilachand Honors College, double majoring in Architectural Studies and Spanish. The daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, her academic interests lie at the intersection of migration, cultural heritage, and the role of the built environment in shaping human experience. Since beginning her […]
Maria Antonia Blandon
Maria Antonia Blandon is a graduate student at the MFA in Literary Translation and recipient of the CFD Fellowship for 2025. With a degree in Literature and experience translating works by well-known authors, she considers translation as both a creative art and a cultural bridge. Through academic research and hands-on projects, she has explored translation […]
Ece Celikkol
Ece Celikkol earned an BA in Translation and Interpreting from Baskent University, Turkiye. Ece is an MFA student at Boston University in the field of Literary Translation. She is interested in translating legal and literary texts including short stories related to forced displacement.
Ibrahim Fawzy
Ibrahim Fawzy (he/him/his) is a graduate fellow at CFD. He’s currently pursuing his MFA at Boston University. He’s a two-time graduate of the British Center for Literary Translation (BCLT) Summer School, and the European School of Literary Translation. He was awarded a mentorship with the National Center for Writing, UK (2022/2023) as a part of […]
Selma Hedlund
Selma Hedlund is a postdoctoral associate at CFD. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Boston University and advocates for participatory inquiries and research methods that inform social change. Selma’s research interests mainly concern migration, immigration policy, and immigrant incorporation, often in relation to health. Her scholarship draws parallels between refugees’ and Indigenous peoples’ experiences […]
Pranjal Kumar
Pranjal Kumar is a junior studying political science and philosophy with aspirations of becoming a civil rights lawyer. He previously worked as a refugee resettlement worker in high school and is more than eager to use his experiences to better the research on forced displacement.
Thomas Larsen
Thomas Larsen is a third-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kilachand Honors College studying Political Science with minors in Public Policy and Data Science. Thomas is from New Jersey and since coming to college, he has been particularly interested in forced displacement and its associated policies. He currently works as […]
Yanina Nahum
Yanina Nahum is a postdoctoral researcher at the CFD and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She earned her Ph.D in Environmental Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in wastewater research and biomedical applications, including treatment processes, contaminant removal, and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. She is interested in the connection […]