Hazel Velasco Palacios

Hazel Velasco Palacios (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University. Hazel’s dissertation examines how structural and symbolic violence shape healthcare access for Latina/o immigrant farmworker families in Pennsylvania’s dairy and mushroom...

Summer Sullivan

Summer Sullivan (she/her) is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. Summer’s research takes advantage of the evolving context in which technologies are transforming social and environmental relations, especially for already exploited, racialized...

Guillermo Paez Gallardo

Guillermo Paez Gallardo (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Irvine. His dissertation, Demolition Men: Precarity, Illegality, and Masculinity at a Latino Workplace, explores how undocumented migrant men navigate an informal and high-risk occupation. Using...

Rosa Navarro

Rosa is the 2025-2026 Democratic Resilience Fellow funded by the Freedom Together Foundation. Rosa Navarro (she/her) is a first-generation college student and the proud daughter and granddaughter of Mexican Immigrant farmworkers from the Pacific Northwest. She is a...

Joseph van der Naald

Joseph van der Naald’s dissertation examines the conditions that fostered the rapid growth of public-sector employees’ unions in the United States beginning in the 1960s. Using a historical comparative analysis of government workers’ movements in Michigan and Ohio,...

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