Undergraduate Director’s Fellows, 2022

Diego Haro is a senior studying Global Affairs with a concentration in economic development. He’s interested in making economics research accessible to a policy audience, especially how state governments can use Randomized Control Trials to improve welfare and affordable housing policy. In the past, he’s worked as a Policy Intern for MIT’s Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Tobin Research Assistant for the Economic Growth Center, and public-sector consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

Julianna Lai is a senior in the Ethics, Politics, & Economics program concentrating in histories and theories of social oppression. She’s an advocate for treating gender and racial inequalities as asset-building issues and hopes to research the effects of racial capitalism and barriers to mobility on the functioning of democratic institutions. She has worked in both local and international development for the City of New Haven, the United Nations in Burma, and in the private sector.

Christian Robles is a junior in Davenport College and from Washington, DC. He is studying Political Science and is an Education Studies Scholar, reflecting his interest in education policy. He is particularly passionate about issues pertaining to equitable school funding, school integration efforts, and the accessibility of higher education opportunities. At Yale, he is a desk editor for the Yale Daily New’s city desk, tutor for 1st graders in quarantine, computer science tutor for New Haven Public Schools students, and member of the Young Democratic Socialists of America

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.