2022 Summer Fellows
Examining the business model of misinformation: …
Misinformation and political polarization on social media: Although the majority of Americans seem to agree that freedom of…
Racial inequality: Recent research has demonstrated that both racial representation (i.e., the racial identities of those within a…
Lack of understanding of how building design can support the wellbeing of trauma survivors: In 2020, 35,118 people in the San…
Increasing awareness for hearing disabilities in the arts: The Deaf community experiences significant isolation when participating…
Health effects of exposure to air pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency has long promised to model air emissions from…
Making the U.S. naturalization process easier for immigrants: Naturalization rates are low in the United States compared to similar immigrant-receiving countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, despite the legal…
Examining the systemic push out mechanisms in the medical education pipeline that drives underrepresentation of marginalized folks within the profession: …
Race-, gender-, and sex-based inequality across organizations: We are engaging in a longitudinal, ethnographic study in partnership…
Violence against women in refugee camps: The problem that this project seeks to address is the prevalence of violence against women…
Multi-hazard impacts of sea level rise: Sea level rise increases the natural hazard risk coastal communities, both the built…
High principal turnover in urban and low-income schools: San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) two-year Transformative…
Misinformation, eroding trust in media: The problem of online misinformation has become a central social challenge. One solution to…
Trust building and crime mitigation: Crime has long been an issue in the U.S., but most approaches to reducing crime focus on…
Inclusive climate adaptation: Enactment of climate justice requires that the processes by which the world adapts to climate change…
The sharing of information between experts (physicians) and non-experts (patients in the healthcare system): The assessment of…
Unmet needs of marginalized groups, namely women and tribal groups, in Madhya Pradesh, India: My summer fieldwork will explore…
Water affordability: In 2012, California was the first state to legislatively declare the human right to water, which entitles all…
Drivers and barriers to expressing allyship: Identity-oriented social movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have changed…
Increasing access to equitable educational opportunities: It has been widely documented that households of higher socioeconomic…