Sehdia Mansaray is an applied researcher and development practitioner. She is a Sierra Leonean-American, born and raised in Raleigh, NC, and over the past ten years has come to call many places home, including Arizona and Senegal. Her professional hats … Read more

Abigail is the Lead Community Based Researchers for the ncIMPACT Initiative, an entrepreneurial initiative at the UNC School of Government that supports communities across the state with data and tools to make decisions in their local context. She supports the … Read more

My name is Grace and I am a first-year Master’s student at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC with a concentration in Health Equity and Social Justice. My experience as a teacher has helped to prioritize communities … Read more

Salma Treish is a Palestinian American MPH student at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, with a concentration in Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights. With a passion for Global Health and Epidemiology, Salma focuses on addressing … Read more

My name is Jacob Shomali (he/him), and I am a first-year MPH student at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health with a concentration in Health Equity & Social Justice. My interests include population mental health, LGBTQ+ health disparities, and … Read more

Ece Erlat is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. Her research interests focus on community archaeology, cultural heritage studies, digital archaeology, co-creative methodologies, archaeological ethics, and decolonization. Specifically, she is interested in utilizing co-creative and collaborative methodologies … Read more

Dicky Baruah (She/They) is a non-binary individual from India, currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work and serving as a Graduate Research Associate at Global Social Development Innovations (GSDI).  She earned a B.Sc. in … Read more

I am a sociocultural medical anthropologist researching how the U.S. opioid epidemic has impacted the personal and professional subjectivities of clinicians who care for those with chronic pain. Taking a relational approach to chronic pain, I study how this may … Read more

Dane Emmerling is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health focused on teaching. Dane’s pedagogy is centered on the process of sociopolitical development through which individuals increase their analytic skills … Read more

My name is Isabel Abarca (she/her), as of Fall 2024, I am a second-year PhD student in the Sociocultural Anthropology program. Broadly, I am interested in migration, identity, and immigrant families and communities in the American South. More specifically, I … Read more