Student Advisory Board
The Center for Racial Justice's Student Advisory Board is a collective of undergraduate and graduate students who will work together to do blue sky dreaming and executing around racial justice at the Ford School. The advisory board is given the time, space, and financial resources to create impactful programming for the Ford School student community. At the start of each academic year, Ford School students are invited to apply to join the student advisory board. We seek to partner with students who are passionate, curious, and motivated to center racial justice and antiracism in their studies, research, and advocacy.
Admitted: Fall 2021
Radhika Arora
Admitted: Fall 2020
Kevin Davis
Kevin Davis Ford School Class of 2022 -- I grew up in Detroit, MI and I have been a Resident Advisor for Couzens Hall since the beginning of the 2019 fall semester. I have also been on the Executive Board of the Central Student Government since then. Other things include volunteering for the Solomon Rajput for U.S. Congress campaign and mentoring for S.I.B.S. Two of the many policy areas of interest to me are foreign and housing policy.
Admitted: Fall 2021
Hailey Espinosa
Hailey Espinosa, Ford Class of 2023 -- I grew up in Connecticut but happily moved to Ann Arbor for college! I'm currently interning at the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and have been involved with Model UN since high school. I was just a director at a conference last week. One policy area I'm particularly passionate about is environmental policy.
Admitted: Fall 2021
William Feliciano
Admitted: Fall 2021
Jessica Hartshorn
Admitted: Fall 2020
Ying He
Ying He grew up in China and came to the US four years ago. Now, she has graduated from Occidental College with a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and Economics. She was trained in economic and political theories, as well as some quantitative analysis skills. She is excited about attending Ford School, getting to know the community within the school and beyond. She dreams about becoming a policy analyst and is eager to advocate for minority groups and women in the policy arena.
Admitted: Fall 2021
Phong Hong
Admitted: Fall 2021
Abigail Johnson
Admitted: Fall 2021
Dianne Kaiyoorawongs
Admitted: Fall 2021
Elina Morrison
Student Engagement and Communications Coordinator, Center for Racial Justice
Sharanya Pai
Sharanya Pai (MPP '21) is the student engagement and communications coordinator for the Center for Racial Justice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her areas of expertise and interest are economic development, complex systems and social structures, community engagement, and designing physical and digital experiences.
Admitted: Fall 2021
Yasmine Slimani
Yasmine Slimani, Ford School Class of 2023 -- I grew up in Dearborn, MI, and was involved in ACCESS and the Teen Grantmaking Initiative throughout high school. Upon arriving at the University of Michigan, I have been involved in the Arab Student Association and am currently writing for The Daily's Michigan in Color section. One policy area of particular interest to me is immigration policy.
Admitted: Fall 2021
Sean-Michael Steele
Admitted: Fall 2021
Sofia Terenzio
Sofia Terenzio, Ford School Class of 2023 — One policy area I am especially passionate about is women’s rights and equality policy. I work for the Michigan Daily’s news podcast, the Daily Weekly as a content producer.
Fall 2021
Alexia Carrillo Villalobos
Admitted: Fall 2019
Sarah Wagner
Sarah Wagner earned her BS in Biopsychology, Cognition, & Neuroscience and Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 2016. She is originally from Milford, MI and currently lives in the Ann Arbor area. She has spent the last three years in UM's Department of Psychology as a Graduate Program Coordinator, acting as an advisor and main point of contact for Psychology Ph.D. students. While in this role, she created the WeListen Staff Discussion series, facilitating small-group conversations about polarizing topics between participants of varying political affiliations.
Admitted: Fall 2020
Maheen Zahid
Maheen is a Fulbright Scholar pursuing a Master of Public Policy degree at the Ford school. Her research interests include gender, financial inclusion and technology policy. In her spare time she reads fiction, catches up on TV-series, and bakes!
