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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Minali is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of African American Studies and Political Science. Her research focuses on the ways race is politically constructed and weaponized to serve both liberal and right-wing political projects. Her dissertation research examines how racialized data and statistical evidence generate new political challenges for racial justice movements, often subverting the radical demands of Black social movements. Minali is also part of the editorial team for a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Politics of the Multiracial Right (NYU Press 2026).

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Rebekah Boitey is a sophomore at Yale majoring in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration with a certificate in Data Science. She is passionate about creating informed and equitable social policies, with her primary areas of interest being criminal justice reform and affordable housing policy. On campus, she serves as a board member for the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, is a research assistant with the Yale Housing and Health Equity Lab, does housing research with the Yale Policy Institute, and volunteers with the Community Healthcare Van.

Elisa Celis
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Elisa Celis is an assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science department at Yale University. She studies the manifestation of social and economic biases in our online lives via the algorithms that encode and perpetuate them. Her research leverages both experimental and theoretical approaches, and her work spans multiple disciplines including data science, machine learning, fairness in socio-technical systems and algorithm design.

At Yale she co-founded the Computation and Society Initiative.

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Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026

Ethan Chiu is a BA/MPP student at Yale University studying Global Affairs and History, with a passion for technology, national security, and industrial policy. He was most recently a fellow on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Red Cell Partners. Previously, he served as a Director’s Fellow at the Yale Digital Ethics Center, where he researched the evolution of labor conditions in American, Taiwanese, Japanese, and German semiconductor supply chains from the 1960s to the present. He also worked as a research program manager for Dr.

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. 

Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026

Sabbi Gale-Donnelly (she/they) is a third-year who studies Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She focuses in part on how theories of language can be utilized to measure the strength of, and effectively bolster, systems of governance. Sabbi has worked in government at the state and federal level, including most recently as an intern to the office of U.S. Senator Gillibrand, where she developed recommendations for the improvement of health insurance accessibility for long-term vector-borne disease patients.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Emi is a junior in Pauli Murray majoring in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health & Political Science. She is interested in public health policy, with a focus on reproductive health as well as Medicare and Medicaid. Additionally, Emi is interested in democratic reform, including gerrymandering and voting accessibility. At Yale, Emi writes and edits for The Politic, works as a Communication and Consent Educator, and is involved with Dwight Hall, both as a FOCUS leader and within the Advocacy Committee.

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