Undergraduate Director’s Fellows

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.

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.

Nida Khan is a Junior in Morse College majoring in Urban Studies. She is a native of Balochistan, Pakistan but has called ten different cities home. She is interested in the power of the built environment to shape a sustainable and equitable future. Through her work as a peer mentor in the disability and transfer communities, an intern with the Yale Law Journal, and research on neuroaesthetics and urbanism, she hopes to contribute positively to her community, both locally and globally.

Michael Paz (he/him) is a first-generation college student from Oxnard, California, majoring in English. He is passionate about immigration law and policy. Michael has taken a gap year to work at a small immigration law firm in California, and he has worked with immigration clinics at Harvard and Yale Law Schools. For classes and freelance work, he writes long-form articles about immigration. He is driven by a theory of change that focuses on communicating how law and policy live in people’s lives, capturing in words and images authentic portraits of people.