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Sarah Copeland

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Sarah Izel Copeland is a junior in Pauli Murray College from Jacksonville, FL. As an Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major, she is particularly interested in asylum policy, migrant identity, immigrant integration, and mixed methods research approaches, along with processes of decolonization and resistance. At Yale, Sarah conducts research for the Yale Policy Institute, Yale Law School’s Lowenstein Project, and the MacMillan Center on topics related to migration and Latin America.

Elizabeth Dejanikus

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Elizabeth Dejanikus is a junior in Timothy Dwight College from Seattle, WA. She is majoring in political science and humanities, and is particularly interested in comparative politics and constitutional law. On campus, she works for the Yale Law Journal, leads First-year Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT), and, as of late, dabbles in theater.

Justin Farrell

Professor of Sociology

Justin Farrell is a professor and author at Yale University, School of the Environment.

He studies culture and environment, with a focus on social class, moral conflict, and epistemology. He blends ethnographic fieldwork in rural communities with large-scale computational techniques from network science and machine learning.

Matthew Jennings

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Matthew Jennings is a junior in Pauli Murray College from Killingworth, Connecticut. He majors in history and political science with an interdisciplinary concentration in the American judiciary and jurisprudence. Matthew is passionate about finding public policy and legal solutions for issues like LGBTQ+ discrimination and ballot access. At Yale, he founded and co-leads the Yale Undergraduate Law Journal and works at the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Yale Law School Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.

Stephen Latham

Director Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Senior Lecturer Political Science; Lecturer School of Management

Stephen R. Latham became Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics in 2011, having been Deputy Director since 2008. For the previous nine years, he had been Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at Quinnipiac University School of Law; during that time, he also taught business ethics at the Yale School of Management each year. Before entering academia full-time, Latham served as Director of Ethics Standards at the American Medical Association, and as secretary to its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.

Jenny Lee

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Jenny Lee is a junior in Saybrook College studying Economics and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, informed by her experience as a 1.5-generation Korean American raised in Seattle. Lee studies community movements anchored in Asian American feminisms, disability justice, and ethnic studies education & literature. Deepened by her commitment to combating domestic and gendered violence, her work has brought her to conducting research at Reproductive Freedom for All (NARAL) and engaging in political education at the Yale Asian American Cultural Center.

Caleb Lee

Dahl Scholar, 2023-2024

Caleb is a junior majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics with a certificate in Data Science. As a Dahl Scholar, under the advisory of Professor Alan Gerber, he is researching the status quo of literacy instruction programming for incarcerated individuals with the aim of providing direction for future improvement. This project involves close collaboration with nonprofits and correctional facilities and utilizes data analysis and a thorough literature review in order to produce a pioneering report that both researchers and policymakers can use to improve education in prison.

Genesis N. Luigi Bravo

ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Génesis is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work focuses on understanding how social movements, technology, and expertise influence people’s experiences with healthcare. Her academic and professional practice nurtures from her work as an advocate with a decade of experience in grassroots feminist organizing. Her last research project “Becoming abortion experts: making and transforming the professional boundaries of abortion care in Mexico” explores how the use of abortion medication reshapes notions of expertise in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Sovy Phan

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Sovy Pham is a sophomore from Atlanta, Georgia majoring in American Studies and Urban Studies. Her primary policy interests include land-use reform, zoning equity, and socio-spatial relations in urbanity. She is also interested in critical cartography and questions of
territory/sovereignty. On campus, she serves on the Yale College Council, plays Saybrook intramural sports, and directs the FOCUS on New Haven program.

Yuting Qian

ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Yuting Qian is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management, with a concentration in Economics. She holds an MS in Health Policy and Economics from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Her research interests include public policies and the health of the aging population, particularly people with cognitive impairment. Her current work examines disparities in dementia diagnosis and the impact of diagnosis on the health and economic well-being of older adults.

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