2024-2026 Fellows
Guadalupe (Lupita) Barrientos, Educational Linguistics, Graduate School of Education (PGAEF Faculty Advisor: Nelson Flores, Educational Linguistics, GSE)
Lupita plans to teach the ABCS course "Latinxs in the US," which highlights perspectives often ignored and deemphasized within a homogenizing view of Latinxs and supports Penn undergraduate and CCATE (Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación) high school student research partnerships. These partnerships investigate, reframe and collectively address inequities in Latinx youths' educational and linguistic experiences. Her research focuses on the co-naturalization of race and language and the impacts of these processes on Latinx communities, families, and students, especially as they experience them at the intersections of other minoritized identities. Before beginning her Ph.D., Lupita taught Kindergarten and bilingual second grade in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
Taylor Tomlinson, Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences (PGAEF Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Rhoades, Chemistry, SAS)
Taylor plans to design and teach an ABCS course on environmental factors that contribute to dementia risk, in which Penn students and Philadelphia public school students collaborate to identify micro communities at highest risk for developing dementias like Alzheimer’s disease, propose solutions to combat transportation noise, and implement interventions such as providing hearing protection. Taylor’s dissertation research utilizes chemical biology tools to investigate how Tau protein, implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia, spreads and propagates in disease. She is excited to combine her laboratory research skills with her belief in healthcare as a human right. Prior to starting her Ph.D at Penn, Taylor studied chemistry and sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Rebecca Winkler, Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences (PGAEF Faculty Advisor: Fariha Khan, Asian American Studies, SAS)
Rebecca is a Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural anthropology who works with Karen speaking communities in Philadelphia and Rural Northern Thailand. Building on long term partnerships with Karen community leaders in Philadelphia who are developing Philadelphia’s first and only Karen led community organization, Rebecca plans to design and teach an ABCS course that will help build organizational capacity among Karen community organizers and foster new long-term institutional partnerships. The course will bring together literatures on forced migration and refugee resettlement with methods for participatory knowledge production and project design at the intersection of anthropology and environmental justice work. Rebecca is originally from Philadelphia, and prior to starting her Ph.D at Penn she worked in the community based environmental justice field in Thailand.