Alysha Alani

Alysha graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Rochester. She graduated college with a B.A. in anthropology and Spanish and minors in public health and gender studies before pursuing an interdisciplinary year-long study of media and social change through the Take 5 fellowship program. As an undergrad, Alysha organized around social, racial, economic, health and environmental justice issues with GlobeMed and Students for a Democratic Society. Alysha also had the privilege of serving as a research assistant at the Susan B. Anthony Center working on issues such as the local gender wage gap and qualitative research projects on collegiate perceptions of feminism.

Field placement: United Way of King County

Seattle, Washington

Policy placement: New America Foundation

Washington, DC