College: Grace Hopper
Major: Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Internship: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
Experience: Gema served as a school-year mitigation intern at the Connecticut Public Defender’s Office. She is also an undergraduate research assistant to Professor Andrea Aldrich, whose research focuses on political representation, gender, and comparative political institutions. In addition, she has been an organizing intern at the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy coalition and at Planned parenthood of Southern New England.
Activities: Gema is a member of Yale’s Ballet Folklórico group. She has also served as co-moderator of Mecha de Yale, a Latino student activist organization and YaleBleeds, a student organization dedicated to menstrual equity.