Isabella Abraham
Isabella is a senior in the Pardee School in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a BA in International Relations and an Arabic minor. In her second year working with the IOC, she is looking forward to further exploring urban planning and policy, especially as it relates to housing inequality, policing, and food justice. […]
Daniel Abramson
Daniel M. Abramson’s scholarship focuses on issues of architecture, society, economics, and government, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries with a specialization in American and European topics. Current work focuses on architecture and citizenship in American government centers since 1900, including a recent article in Grey Room 78 (Winter 2020) on the Massachusetts State Service Center and the American welfare state. Before coming to Boston University in 2016, Abramson taught at Tufts University and Connecticut College. He […]
Lara Adekeye
Read more about Lara’s experience as the 2017 MORRE Summer Fellow Lara studied Political Science and African American studies. Her passion for social justice stems from her experience as a Cambridge, MA resident, her leadership in the African American Studies Center at Boston University, and more recently her experience working with the American Civil Liberties […]
Gloria Ampadu-Darko
Gloria is a sophomore majoring in International Relations with a minor in Political Science and Public Health. Her interests include international development, human rights, civil rights, and social justice. She aspires to pursue a career in which she can make a meaningful impact in one of these areas. Gloria’s directed study will be centered around […]
Diya Ashtakala
Diya is a first-year graduate student pursuing an MA in International Affairs with a specialization in security studies from Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. She grew up in Bangalore, India. She received a BA in Communicative English, Political Science, and Economics from India. As an undergraduate, she worked with student-run magazines. She served […]
Cristell Bacilio
Cristell Bacilio (she/her) is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in International Relations and Political Science from Dallas, Texas. With a strong interest in social justice and human rights, she hopes to give back to the communities she is a part of and is excited to learn from and […]
Jessica Bajada-Silva
Read more about Jessica’s experience as the 2018 MORRE Summer Fellow Jessica Bajada-Silva studied Environmental Analysis and Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences. She worked as a Student Office Assistant at the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and previously interned at the Human Rights Center in Padova, Italy. On campus, she’s involved as […]
Jaclyn Berman
Jaclyn (she/her) is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in Political Science. As an aspiring housing and urban policy professional, she is extremely excited to continue exploring urban issues faced on campus and beyond, especially through the IOC’s #BUandBoston series. Passionate about affordable housing, immigrant rights, and feminist & […]
Adam Bieda
Adam is a graduate with a double major in Economics and English. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Adam spent the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson and Professor of Economics Robert Margo in an on-campus Directed Study program. He spent the 2019 spring semester in Boston University’s (BU) Washington, DC study abroad program, where […]
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Japonica Brown-Saracino is an ethnographer who specializes in urban and community sociology, cultural sociology, and the study of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. In 2004, City and Community published her article, “Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community,” which draws on her study of four gentrifying communities (two small New England towns and two Chicago […]