Democracy Camp in Berkeley Fellow

Aaron Harvey

2020 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2020

Angelica Aban

2023 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2023

Angelica Aban is the oldest of three daughters from an immigrant family in Temecula, California. While at Berkeley, she became particularly interested in the role that the law, access to healthcare, and a high-quality education can play in expanding access and opportunities for disadvantaged populations from an upstream perspective. Angelica will graduate in the Spring of 2023 with a major in Legal Studies and minors in both Public Policy and Education.

Outside of the classroom, Angelica is an active member...

Christian Jared Aleman

2023 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2024

Christian Jared Aleman is a Bay Area native who grew up in San Francisco and the East Bay. With his various academic experiences, he is interested in the advancement of educational rights for historically marginalized students within California and beyond.

As a student, Christian has worked on projects within the Democracy Lab at the Latinx Research Center. His project focused on the democratic representation of Latin Americans in the United States. He recorded a period where undocumented families under Oakland Unified School District voiced their political...

Jocelyn Alexander

2022 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2025

Hi, I’m Jocelyn Alexander. I am a freshman, I will be majoring in Public Health at UC Berkeley. I’m a first-generation and low-income woman of color part of EOP, and NavCal. I am an intern for Health Career Pathways where I devised a project on helping the unemployed find jobs. I’m also an intern for Richmond HOPS where I participated in community outreach and advocated for my community’s access to healthy foods. I decided to become an advocate because there are many low-income communities living in food deserts, where there are no fresh food options nearby. Due to food deserts,...

Randy Cantz

2020 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2021

Alma Castillo

2023 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2025

Alma Castillo is a first-generation, low-income, second-year student at UC Berkeley from South Central Los Angeles. At Cal, she is a part of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), Disabled Students Program (DSP), and Biology Scholars Program (BSP). She also participates in the College Corps Fellowship and is the Public Relations co-chair of UC Berkeley’s Comunidad for Health Equity (CHE). She is majoring in Public Health because she wants to help people from low-income communities live healthier lives by connecting them to health resources. She also wants to...

Allyssa Jo Chan

2023 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2024

Allyssa is a third year studying Political Science and Political Economy. She grew up in a promodominately latinx community in Southern California and is passionate about immigration rights. She became interested in immigration rights after her community was impacted by the changes in the DACA legislation in 2018. In highschool, Allyssa would spread awareness through organizations like Junior State of America, where she held open discussions and information session for the community.

Throughout her time at UC Berkeley, she...

Saida Cornejo

2020 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2021

Katie DaQuino

2023 Cal-in-Sacramento Fellow, 2022 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2023

Katie DaQuino is a fourth year student studying Political Science, with minors in Public Policy and Interdisciplinary Human Rights Studies. She is the president of Cal Habitat for Humanity, a community service club that aims to give students opportunities to volunteer in the local community. The club is focused on affordable housing and during her time as president she has worked to expand the advocacy branch of the club. Katie is also an editor for the Undergraduate Public Policy Review Journal, where she published an article about housing policies in California.

She also is...

Anna Diaz

2023 Democracy Camp Berkeley Fellow
Class of 2023

Anna is passionate about serving underserved communities through the lens of the law and legal system. As a Berkeley Peter E. Haas Public Service Leader, she works for Bay Area JusticeCorps, where she helps self-represented litigants navigate the legal system by providing legal information under the supervision of attorneys. Currently, Anna also works as a Law Clerk at a local law firm, eager to gain additional legal experience before applying for law school. In the future, she hopes to contribute to creating more paths for justice under the law and equitable access to legal services...