Faith Rynda
Read more about Faith’s experience as the 2020 MORRE Summer Fellow Faith majored in political science on a 4-year BA/MA program track and minoring in innovation & entrepreneurship. She is from the Bay Area, California where she lives with her family and two dachshunds. She plans to pursue a career in government, and her policy […]
Christine Slaughter
Christine M. Slaughter is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She received her PhD in 2021 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining the department, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines African American […]
Erin Tatz
Erin Tatz is a Research Assistant for the Menino Survey of Mayors, the only nationally representative and scientifically rigorous survey of American mayors. She entered the Political Science PhD program in 2019 after earning a B.A. in Critical Theory and Social Justice from Occidental College in 2016 and working in the social service sector in […]
Sean Waddington
Sean (he/him) is a senior at the College of Arts & Sciences, pursuing a BA in political science and sociology. He has been with the IOC as an Office Assistant since his freshman year at BU. As a burgeoning urbanist and policymaker, he enjoys working with the full-time staff to further explore urban issues, supplementing […]
Chas Walker
Chas is a PhD candidate in BU’s Department of Political Science, a Graduate Affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, and a writer whose essays on politics, work, and culture have been published in Jacobin, The Boston Globe, Truthout, and more. He earned a BA in African-American Studies at Brown University in 2000 […]
Marcus Walton
Marcus Walton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Brown University. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Public Affairs Research Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa and a lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand. His research is on democracy and protest in […]