Democracy Camp in DC Fellows & Alumni

Danielle Mitchell (she/her)

Danielle Mitchell is a second-year undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a double major in Political Science and History with a focus on International Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy. As a...Read more about Danielle Mitchell

Lauryn Marcete Martin (she/they)

Nice to meet you! My name is Lauryn Marcete Martin, I grew up in Sacramento, California in a low-income household and I identify as a first-generation, African-American student. I am currently entering my third year at UC Berkeley, double-majoring in legal...Read more about Lauryn Marcete Martin

Fatima Michell Morales (she/her)

Fatima Morales is a first generation, low income, Latina double majoring in Political Science and Economics.

When not devoted to her studies, Fatima is one of the K-12 Recruitment and Development Co-Coordinators for...Read more about Fatima Michell Morales

Tamera Martin (she/her)

Tamera Martin is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley studying Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, with minors in African-American Studies and French. As a young Black woman, her...Read more about Tamera Martin

Jovanni J. Vazquez Rangel (he/him)

Jovanni is dedicated to addressing the ongoing challenges of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and marginalized communities. At the age of eighteen, Jovanni found out that he was not a U.S. citizen; however, Jovanni...Read more about Jovanni J. Vazquez Rangel

Noel Arikew (he/him)

Noel Arikew is a first-generation, low-income, transfer student double majoring in political economy and legal studies as well as minoring in public policy. At Berkeley, he is a Miller Scholar, and is currently working on his research on anti-Blackness in the...Read more about Noel Arikew

Born and raised by a mixed-status family in Los Angeles, California, Alexia Guerra is the proud daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and is the first in her family to attend college. She is a second-year double majoring in Political Science/Ethnic Studies with an intended minor in...Read more about Alexia Guerra

Stacy Giu (she/her)

Stacy is a first-generation college student and a senior studying Social Welfare and Public Policy. As a child of Vietnamese refugees, Stacy has dedicated her academic and professional pursuits to advancing children's rights and improving systems of governance that...Read more about Stacy Giu

Janet Mendoza-Partida (She/They)

Janet Mendoza-Partida is a rising senior at the University of California, Berkeley studying Legal Studies and Chicanx/Latinx studies. She was born and raised in Watsonville, California by Mexican migrant...Read more about Janet Mendoza-Partida

Nouhamin Leoulekal, the daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, is a passionate advocate for criminal justice reform, aiming to reshape the system to better serve those historically marginalized and excluded from legal relief. She is dedicated to dismantling systemic barriers at the...Read more about Nouhamin Leoulekal

Bianca is a proud Mexican-American from Echo Park, Los Angeles. Her ancestors’ grit and determination greatly inspire her. Also, Bianca is a second-year Ethnic Studies major who’s passionate about social justice and community engagement. Specifically, she’s...Read more about Bianca Torres Murray

Ash Rosas (she/her)

Ash is an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, studying legal studies. She was raised in a working-class community in Los Angeles, where her passion as an organizer and researcher flourished. She began working with grassroots youth...Read more about Ash Rosas

Mansour Taleb-Ahmed (he/him)

Mansour’s journey began in a high school where whispers of "far-fetched" threatened his Berkeley dream. Extraordinary challenges marked his undergraduate journey. Arriving in the US in January 2020, he faced the pandemic in absolute isolation, knowing no one...Read more about Mansour Taleb-Ahmed

Rungsiri Upradit (she/her)

Rungsiri Upradit was born in Thailand and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. She is passionate about doing work that will uplift and empower the community in the areas of housing sustainability, the environment, and public...Read more about Rungsiri Upradit

Raised by a single mother in a household of six siblings in Southern California, Anthony is passionate about creating solutions for formerly incarcerated, system-impacted, and marginalized communities. At an early age, Anthony was abandoned by his father and was forced to live in a...Read more about Anthony Mondragon

Amber Griffin-Royal (she/her) is a low-income, disabled, Oakland native, fourth-year re-entry transfer majoring in African American Studies. Her time at Cal has been invaluable as she's been supported academically and creatively to pursue her interests in research, femtorship, and DJing....Read more about Amber Griffin-Royal

Karen Esparza Lopez is first-generation Mexican Immigrant and former foster youth studying Political Science. During her time in foster care, she witnessed extreme injustices that many foster youth face in the child welfare system. She has seen the ways in...Read more about Karen Esparza Lopez

Salvador Uribe is a non-traditional student obtaining his undergraduate degree as an older student at UC Berkeley. Salvador immigrated to the United States at a very young age, along with his two parents and older brother. For someone like Salvador and his background, a first-...Read more about Salvador Uribe

Marlyn is a first-generation college student who will be graduating in May 2023 from UC Berkeley with a degree in Political Science and Comparative Ethnic Studies. She was born in San Diego but grew up living in both San Diego and Tijuana. As part of a mixed-status family, she learned...Read more about Marlyn Suhey Zuno

Kulsoom Hasan is a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing studies within the Travers Department of Political Science and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her passion for public service was initially forged through community engagement at the local governmental level as...Read more about Sayeda Kulsoom Hasan

Ibrahim Abdul-Aziz Mohyuddin is a college senior studying Legal Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He grew up in a very tight-knit immigrant Muslim community in Tennessee where he had gotten to experience first hand the ways that ethnic immigrants...Read more about Ibrahim Mohyuddin

Jocelin Robles is a first-generation Latina from East Oakland majoring in Ethnic Studies and minoring in Education. As someone from a low-income immigrant family in the Bay, Jocelin has first-hand witnessed how local and federal governments inflict...Read more about Jocelin Robles