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Jane HendersonJane Henderson is a PhD candidate in the department of Geography. Her research focuses on Black geographies in relationship to settler colonialism in her hometown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jane is a founding member of the Berkeley Black Geographies Project. As an undergraduate she participated in multiple research mentorship programs and credits her success in applying to graduate school to the support of mentors at the Michigan State Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) and the University of San Diego TRiO McNair Scholars Program. |
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april l. graham-jacksonapril l. graham-jackson is a third generation Black chicagoan, former music journalist, and third year ph.d. student. her research thinks through geomusicologies and geosonicologies to examine Black scale—a cross-sensory encounter between Blackness, music, sound, and locationality—to illustrate how urban to suburban migration reshaped Black identity, music, and sounds into multiscalar territories of belonging and strangeness. april graduated phi beta kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in Black geographies from mount holyoke college. she mentors several undergraduates through a holistic approach that draws from the earthy witticisms of her late grandparents and experiences as a homegirl and first generation, “non-traditional” age student. |
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Morgan VickersMorgan P. Vickers is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography. Their current work focuses on the drowned towns of the Santee-Cooper Project in Lowland South Carolina, wherein 901 families were displaced and native swampland ecologies were destroyed in the name of New Deal “progress.” Thematically, Morgan’s work contemplates Black ecologies, Black geographies, placemaking, federal dam and reservoir projects, affect, community memory studies, and questions of belonging. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morgan participated in several mentorship programs, including the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) and the Community Histories Workshop Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program. |
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Sam SteinSam Stein is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography. His research examines complex fluvial systems across different spatial and temporal scales with an explicit goal of improving natural resource management. Prior to entering his doctoral program, Sam had a number of illuminating experiences as both a mentee and a mentor while working at San Francisco State University as a lecturer, academic counselor, and director of the Campus Academic Resource Program (CARP). |
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