Undergraduate Dahl Scholars

Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026
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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.

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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Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026

Alessandra Pappalardi is a junior studying Political Science and the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health. Passionate about community-building, Alessandra’s time as a Dahl Scholar will be spent alongside her research partner Sabbi Gale-Donnelly studying discussion as a means to achieve social cohesion. The pair will investigate the efficacy of two kinds of dialogue structures – the mock citizen assembly and the pluralist lab – in shaping ideological trust and openness.

Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026

Jennifer (she/her) is a third-year student originally from Houston, Texas,  pursuing a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with a language certificate in Spanish. Her broader academic interests span biological studies, including mutated-protein analysis and chemical properties of molecular compounds. Furthermore, she began her research experience as a Herb-Scarf scholar the summer of 2025, where she first collaborated with Dr. Xi Chen. As a Dahl Scholar working under the mentorship of Dr.

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Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026

Tina Zeng is a sophomore studying Global Affairs + Computing, Culture & Society. With her passions in public interest technology, democratic innovation and social entrepreneurship, she hopes to leverage technologies like AI for social impact. She aspires to pursue a career in public service that contributes to policy and legal frameworks that safeguard our civil liberties in the digital age.

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