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Politics and Equal Participation Lab Members and Advisory Board

Lab Staff

  • Daniel Laurison '00, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Kelly Diaz, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
    • Kelly Diaz is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility working with Professor Daniel Laurison to study political participation across Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in International Affairs from The Pennsylvania State University. Kelly is passionate about social justice storytelling and loves working with students as a teacher and research mentor. She lives in Philly with her dog Tillie!

Current Lab Members

Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • Ankit Rastogi
  • Elizabeth Zack
 Graduate and Post-Baccalaureate Researchers
  • Barbara Pham, University of California, Irvine (Sociology)
  • Bernie DiGregorio, West Virginia University (Sociology)
  • Brendan Carr, Sustainability & Engaged Scholarship Fellow
  • Chris Santizo-Malafronti '18
  • Claudia Alegre, University of California, Los Angeles (Political Science)
  • Lydia Orr, Temple University (Sociology)
  • Mary Camuso '23
  • Rachel Broun, Stanford University (Anthropology)

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Alesha Archil '25
  • Annette Kim ‘24
  • Danae Davis '27
  • Daniel Perrin '27
  • Danielle Kaufman-Sedano '24
  • Fatima Jahra '24
  • Hannah Breithaupt '26
  • Hoang "Tommy" Vu '24
  • Jamie Zhang '27
  • Jamison Terry '24
  • June Shin '25
  • Justin Chai '24
  • Kaj Tug Lee '25
  • Kyyia Ford '27
  • Yi "Lore" Wu '26
  • Monica Guzman '25
  • Nancy Vu '24
  • Romina '25
  • Samira Begum '25
  • Sydney Hankin '27
  • Tammy Lam '24
  • Zak Vilanilam '26

Community-Based Researcher Advisory Council

  • Bianca Gonzales
  • Ella Vetter '22
  • Felisa Adderly
  • Jennifer Ross
  • Muzammal Afzal

Collaborators

  • Ankit Rastogi, Independent Scholar

Advisory Board

Note: all advisory board members serve in their personal capacity, titles and affiliations are for informational purposes only.

  • Nicole Bañales, Domestic Violence Case Manager at HIAS PA and MSW student at Bryn Mawr College
  • Benjamin Berger, Associate Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College, and Executive Director of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. 
  • Nina Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College, and Member of the The Graterford and Chester Think Tanks.
  • Edwin Mayorga, Associate Professor of Education, Swarthmore College, and Director of the BarrioEdProject, the CSCP project, CritEdPol Journal and EthnicStudiesPHL. 
  • Lara Putnam, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, co-lead of the Southwest PA Civic Resilience Initiative at the Pitt Disinfo Lab.
  • Chaya Scott, Chief Aspiration Officer, Chaya Scott Consulting, LLC
  • Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA).
  • Alix Webb '92, Managing Director at Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and former Executive Director of Asian Americans United.

Alumni (Swarthmore and Community-based)

  • Aidan Williams
  • Ali Gleaves ‘23
  • Angus Lam (‘20)
  • Augustella Makiese '25
  • Benjamin Perez
  • Ben Rotko ‘25
  • Bianca Gonzales 
  • Brandon Shi (‘20)
  • Connor Barrett ‘24
  • Carolin Obispo '26
  • Christopher Chen '26
  • Clara Ximena '26
  • Darid Prom ‘24
  • Ella Vetter ‘22
  • Fatima Hmada '25
  • Fawaz Alhumaidi
  • Felisa Adderly    
  • Gabby Cosey ‘23
  • Gabi Rubinstein (‘20)
  • Haoyu Wang '26
  • Jennifer C Ross
  • Jimmy Pham ‘23
  • Jinia Meherin ‘23
  • Lena Massengale ‘25        
  • Millie Amilcar (‘20)
  • Muzammal Afzal
  • Natalia Abbate ‘23
  • Nicole Banales (‘18)
  • Nicole Padron '25
  • Nora Sweeney ‘24
  • Odalys Peralta Rios
  • Owen Mortner ‘23
  • Ronisha Westbrook
  • Sahiba Tandon ‘25
  • Samaria Turner
  • Sophie Peterson ‘23
  • Zack Kreines '25