Democracy Camp in DC

Shavar Martin (he/him)

Passionate about Civil Rights and Global Equality, Shavar Martin is a fourth-year undergraduate transfer student at the University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies, minoring in Global Poverty and Practice and Human Rights Interdisciplinary. Shavar is the first in his family to attend college. Raised in Jamaica as a child, Shavar witnessed firsthand the global dimension of inequalities. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, with immigrant parents and being faced with...

As a first-generation student, I am committed to amplifying the voices of those who are not heard. I have spent my life on labels that the government often overlooks, such as low-income or people of color. I have completed research and interned for the City of Sacramento, the Sacramento Mayor’s Office, and Sacramento’s District 3 Office. It was vital for me to have my voice heard and speak about issues the government was not interested in. During my time, I aided the Council in passing a legislative bill regarding plastic pollution. While working with City Hall, I realized how...

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 and Muslims were treated in a southern, conservative state post-9/11. He has seen first hand how the government can be used to target minority communities; the Tennessee State Legislature being one of the few legislative bodies in the United States to not only introduce, but also pass an “Anti-Sharia...

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 the Raíces Recruitment and Retention Center. She has had the opportunity to not only serve underprivileged, low-income, Latine K-12 students, but also assist in programming for current students of color at Cal. She aims to continuously promote and demystify higher education, similarly to how her...