
Anthony Nixon
Phd Student, Brown School / Public Health Sciences
- Email: nixonanthonyj@wustl.edu
Black Families
Epidemiology
Father involvement
Health Equity
Maternal and Child Health
Reproductive Justice
Social Determinants of Health

Ilana Olin
MD/PhD Student, School of Medicine
- Email: i.olin@wustl.edu
Anti-racism
Bias mitigation
Educational interventions
Health disparities
Medical education
Social determinants of health

Crystal Paine
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: c.payne@wustl.edu
Black diaspora
Border Theory
Caribbean Studies
Exile
Hemispheric American Studies
Migration and movement
Postcolonial theory

Garrett Pekarek
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: g.e.pekarek@wustl.edu
Colonialism
Experimental Methods
Immigration

JaNiene Peoples
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: e.peoples@wustl.edu
Mental and behavioral health disparities
Risk and resilience among Black adolescents and emerging adults
Substance use
Health behavior change
Intervention research

Nancy Jacquelyn Pérez-Flores
PhD Student, Social Work
- Email: pnancy@wustl.edu
Discrimination
Health and Mental Health Disparities
Immigration
Mental Health Literacy
Qualitative Methods
Race/ethnicity
Social Determinants of Health
Stigma

Annamaria Prati
PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science
- Email: aprati@wustl.edu
International Relations
Mixed Methods
Statebuilding
Traditional Governance
United Nations

Sangami Pugazenthi
School of Medicine
- Email: s.pugazenthi@wustl.edu
Health disparities
Social determinants of health
Medical Specialty Decision Making
Perceptions of Neurosurgery

Grace Reid
PhD Candidate, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Chancellor’s Fellow
- Email: reid.g@wustl.edu
Developmental Psychology
Intersectionality
Race
Social Cognition

Eugen Resendiz Bontrud
Doctoral Student in Public Health Sciences, Brown School
- Email: eugen@wustl.edu
Built Environment

Mustafa Rfat
PhD Student in Social Work, Brown School
- Email: m.rfat@wustl.edu
Refugees/immigrants
Disability
Education
Economic Empowerment
Mental Health

Celia Rothenberg
PhD Student, Hispanic Studies
- Email: c.b.rothenberg@wustl.edu
Gender
Feminist Theory
Transatlantic and Afro-Diaspora studies
Postcolonialism
Afro-Latin America
Racial Stratification

Maegan B. Ruiz
Doctoral Student, Education
- Email: maegan.ruiz@wustl.edu
Collective Expertise
Distributed Cognition
Intersectional Identity
Team Performance

Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebron
MFA Dance Graduate Student, Performing Arts Department
- Email: l.d.santiagolebron@wustl.edu
Caribbean Dance Traditions
Dance (Physical Practice)
Critical Dance Studies
Embodied Practices in Research
Puerto Rican
Queer Latine Performance
Feminism in the Caribbean

Emani Sargent
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: sargente@wustl.edu
Black families
Community health
Gender minorities
Health Disparities
Mental Health
Sexual Health
Social Determinants of Health

David Schwartzman
Olin Business School
- Email: dschwartzman@wustl.edu
Payment Models
Primary Care
Health Disparities

Maria Siciliano
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: m.j.siciliano@wustl.edu
Affect Theory
American Culture Studies
Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies
Form/Genre
Memory/Forgetting
Trauma Studies
Visual Culture

Ella Siegrist
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: ellasiegrist@wustl.edu
Gender
Punishment
Race and Racism
Reproductive Justice

Jeremy Siow
Graduate Student, Political Science
- Email: wsiow@wustl.edu
Comparative Politics
Political Socialization
Southeast Asia Politics
Ethnic and Race Politics
Education Policy
Quantitative Methods

Junlachak Siriprakorn
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: j.peter.s@wustl.edu
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Carceral Reform
Health Disparities
Marxist Critical Theory
Queer/Feminist/Affect Theory
The Phenomenology and Jurisprudence of Race
Trauma and Addiction

Ivy Smith
PhD Student, McKelvey School of Engineering, Computational and Data Sciences
- Email: ivy.s@wustl.edu

Nicole Strombom
PhD Student, Public Health Sciences
- Email: n.a.strombom@wustl.edu
Disparities
Equity
Justice
Health
Legal

Yadira Tejeda
Graduate Student, Brown School of Social Work
- Email: t.yadi@wustl.edu
Latinx Families
Child Welfare System

Maurice Tetne
Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Email: m.tetne@wustl.edu
Africanization
Creolization
Ethnostylistics
Language
Multiethnic
Regional French
Sociolinguistics

Francisco Tijerina
Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures/Hispanic Studies
- Email: francisco@wustl.edu
Contemporary
Energy
Extractivism
Latin America
Literature
Minerals
Oil

Joshua Tobin
Graduate Student, School of Medicine
- Email: joshua.tobin@wustl.edu
Healthcare disparities
Anti-racism
Medical Education
Interpersonal racism
Implicit bias

Ayse Selin Toprakkiran
Graduate Student, Arts & Sciences/ Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: selintoprakkiran@wustl.edu
Stereotypes
Social Identity
Intergroup Relations
Prejudice,
Implicit Attitudes

Juana Torralbo
Graduate Student, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
German-Jewish Studies
Holocaust Studies
Translation Studies
Transnational Literature

Tumaini Ussiri
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: tussiri@wustl.edu
Slavery
Critical Race Theory
Black writing
Blackness
Digital Humanities
19th/20th-century African American Literature

Zeles Vargas
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: zelesvargas@wustl.edu
Colorism
Policing
Queer of Color Critique
Street Life
World-building
Violence

Aditi Vashist
Doctoral Candidate, Organizational Behavior
- Email: avashist@wustl.edu
Activism
Belonging
Gender
Organizations
Politicization
Race
Trauma

Lesley Walker
Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy
- Email: lesley.w@wustl.edu
Discrimination
Intergroup Interactions
Psychosocial Stress
Race and Racism
Social Identity

Zhongze Wei
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: mark.wei@wustl.edu
Globalization
Immigration
Racial Identities
Racialization

Ronelle Williams
Graduate Student, Occupational Therapy
- Email: r.e.williams@wustl.edu
Black/African-American
Disordered Eating
Gender
Health Disparities
Psychosocial Stress
Women’s Health

Megan Wilson
Graduate Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences
- Email: meganwilson@wustl.edu
Activism
Discrimination
Health disparities
Intergenerational discrimination
Purpose in life

Shuya Yin
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: shuyayin@wustl.edu
Children and Adolescent Mental Health
Trauma-informed Care, Early Adversity
Health Disparities, Prevention and Intervention
Implementation And Dissemination Science

Robyn Yzelman
PhD Student, Anthropology
- Email: r.c.yzelman@wustl.edu
Environmental Activism
Indigenous Rights
Latin America
Social Movements