Alagia Justice Cirolia(she/they) is a PhD student who received both their BA in Cognitive Science with High Honors (‘17) and MSW (‘23) from UC Berkeley. Alagia is a proud multi-racial, first-generation scholar from Oceanside, CA, who became motivated by their own academic experiences to study school-based mental health services and their impact on under-resourced communities. Alagia is committed to transforming educational systems in order to promote youth mental health and wellbeing and foster belonging among marginalized students.
Neena Albarus(she/her) is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research experience spans structural violence, community development, and the intersections of policy and public health in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Her dissertation explores interventions addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica. Neena is committed to using data to advance social interventions across the Caribbean and other underrepresented regions.
Aldazia Green(she/her) is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the School of Social Welfare. Her research examines the racial fairness of algorithmic risk assessment tools utilized in the criminal justice system. Through her commitment to both research and practice, she has gained experience in policy advocacy, program implementation, and computational analysis. As an emerging quantitative and critical scholar, Aldazia strives to improve mental health treatment and criminal justice policy in the United States. As an emerging quantitative and critical scholar,...
Mo'e Yaisikana(he/him) is a member of Cou (Indigenous Taiwanese) and a doctoral student at the School of Social Welfare. His intellectual interests concern the interplay between democratic politics and the effectiveness of public care for older adults, particularly how the older population participates in public deliberation and actualizes their citizenship. He examines the construction and hindrance of care policies and the service delivery system, aiming to unravel a comprehensive, systematic, intersecting dynamic form of power to help explain the...
