Placement: NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Placement Location: New York
Reva Kale is a third-year majoring in History with a minor in Public Policy. As the daughter of a teacher, Reva has always respected the work of educators and felt passionate about educational equity. One of her earliest involvements with local politics was when she gave a public comment in front of her town Board of Education in high school. During her time at Berkeley, she worked as an intern for Evolve CA, a local nonprofit dedicated to reforming CA Proposition 13 and...
Placement: Solano County Public Defender's Office Placement Location: Solano County, California
Gurleen Kaur is a third-year undergraduate transfer student double majoring in Psychology and Legal Studies. Her passions include mental health, incarcerated youth, forensic psychology, and the systematic issues of the justice system.
Brayan is a first-generation Mexican 3rd-year college student at UC Berkeley, the son of a migrant field worker and construction worker, from South Sacramento, California. Proudly of Michoacán diaspora, Brayan is committed to working to empower working-class, immigrant communities.
In South Sacramento, Brayan has worked on various community-oriented projects centered around equity including as a member of the Grants Advisory Board for the Youth (GABY) in partnership with the City of Sacramento. GABY has worked historically in the South Sacramento area to...
Anahi has alway been an advocate for others, in fact in her mothers home is a third grade report card with the additional comment which reads “Outspoken in areas of justice, Anahi’s an advocate for all who need a voice”. As the granddaughter of immigrants, system-impacted youth and former community college student, Anahi Ruvalcaba is dedicated and passionate about the issues of higher education affordability and accessibility and juvenile justice reform. Anahi began advocating for students as an intern for her community college's Public Policy School (PPS). Lobbying for...
Mckenzie Diep is a second-year student at UC Berkeley pursuing simultaneous degrees in economics and urban studies. Her interests include broadband equity, science technology policy, anti-displacement studies, and human-centered design. As a Bay Area native, she is passionate about understanding housing and displacement issues. She actively studies how urban design perpetuates racial inequities and informs policy. Mckenzie is a Researcher at the UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto's Urban Displacement Project and a Research Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center on the Politics of...
Mairin Culwell is a rising senior pursuing a simultaneous degree in Political Science and Society and Environment. Growing up in the Bay Area, exposure to Northern California’s fragile ecosystems sparked her interest in the connection between conservation, education, and politics and continues to guide her career goals of advancing environmental protections through governance.
On campus, Mairin enjoys writing for the world section of Berkeley Political Review and...
Ruby Chan-Frey was born and raised in Oakland, California in a third-generation Chinese-American household. She studied with the Race, Policy and Law Academy at Oakland Technical High School, where she became acutely aware of the gaps in education access for low-income BIPOC communities through experience, and of the intricately devastating American incarceration policies through her studies. These experiences prompted her to pursue legal and policy issues of social inequity with a focus on racialized incarceration policy and education access barriers. Beginning her studies at American...
Placement: Rep. Adam Schiff - Burbank District Office Mentor: Colleen Oinuma
Rosie Echeverria was born and raised in East Hollywood, Los Angeles in a Central American immigrant household and she is a first-generation, low-income, EOP, DSP, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ student at UC Berkeley. She went to Santa Monica College (SMC) for about two and a half years then transferred and moved to UC Berkeley in Fall 2020, toward the beginning of the covid pandemic. She is a Political Science major with a minor in Public Policy and Education.
