Team directory: T

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ISPS Director's Fellow, 2022

Katie Taylor, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2022

Katie Taylor is a junior in Branford College from Somers, New York. As a History major, Katie studies the creation and preservation of representative political institutions in the United States. She has served as a legislative intern in Congress and worked full-time for Giffords, the gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, while on leave in the fall of 2020. On campus, she is an editorial intern for the Yale Law Journal and an undergraduate learning assistant for the Directed Studies Program.

ISPS Director's Fellow, 2022

Jennifer Tegegne, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2022

Jennifer (Jenny) Tegegne is a junior in Pauli Murray College majoring in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M) and Education Studies. She lives in Chicago and is interested in questions of citizenship, migration, and resistance – especially as they relate to critical refugee studies and systems of social control (through schooling and incarceration).

Ian Turner, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Ian Turner is Assistant Professor of Political Science, a Resident Fellow in the Institution of Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Co-director of the Political Institutions/Political Behavior Research Program at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD in political science from Washington University in St.
ISPS Director's Fellow, 2021

Samuel Turner, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2021

Samuel Ralph Turner is a junior in Trumbull College from Philadelphia, PA. He is majoring in Ethics, Politics, & Economics and pursuing a certificate in Global Health Studies. At Yale, Samuel plays on the varsity men’s squash team and serves as a site coordinator for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. He has conducted health policy research — related to cancer legislation, hospital consolidation, and Covid-19 testing —and is interested in how legal and public policy tools can improve the American healthcare system.