Politics and Equal Participation Lab Members and Advisory Board

Lab Staff

Daniel Laurison '00, Associate Professor of Sociology
- Daniel Laurison is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College and a 2021-2023 Carnegie Fellow. His research interests include class inequality and social mobility, political participation and campaigns, and racial and class inequality in politics. Daniel has written three books: Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us (2022, Beacon Press), The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to Be Privileged (2019, Policy Press, co-authored with Sam Friedman), and Social Class in the 21st Century (2015, co-authored with Mike Savage & seven other people). Before starting at Swarthmore, Daniel held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Sociology Department at the London School of Economics, and received his PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley,
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!

 Graduate and Post-Baccalaureate Researchers

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.