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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://mpeprogram.com/resources daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://mpeprogram.com/research-affiliates daily 0.75 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/0e788437-bbd7-4bf6-a78a-ae027aecf981/Chie+headshot+7-18-23.png MPE Research Affiliates - Chie Togami REU Program Coordinator, Graduate Research Assistant Chie is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Broadly speaking, her research spans environment, social movements, philanthropy, and gender. Her dissertation uses qualitative methods to examine the impact of foundation funding on the strategies and tactics of new climate change social movement organizations. In addition to her dissertation, she has researched and written about air quality, environmental justice, and epistemology in Western Pennsylvania. In 2021, she produced a limited series podcast about the social and environmental legacy of the U.S. Steel Corporation. 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Her research interests include the social development of people and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/216d133d-483c-49af-8348-52ee79ec9d18/221116_GradStudentsofColorHeadshots_029_em+%282%29.JPG MPE Research Affiliates - Tania Lucia Ramírez Graduate Research Assistant Tania Lucia is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a current fellow of the Bicentennial Generation Scholarship, granted by the government of Peru. Her research centers on the political economy of development and environmental change, and social movements with a focus on the Latin American region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/63639c3c-794f-4457-b9cc-06323087b1f4/yeneca-headshot.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - Yeneca Lee REU Program Coordinator, Graduate Research Assistant Yeneca is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research broadly centers on social movements, movement organizations, and gender with a regional focus in East Asia. She is currently studying the feminist movement in South Korea and is especially interested in exploring how organizational structures, resources, mobilization strategies, and external influences shape movement trajectories and outcomes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/23b76733-fc05-4e7b-9855-8cb6ee9976e0/221116_GradStudentsofColorHeadshots_029_em+%282%29.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - Tania Lucia Ramírez Graduate Research Assistant Tania Lucia is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a current fellow of the Bicentennial Generation Scholarship, granted by the government of Peru. Her research centers on the political economy of development and environmental change, and social movements with a focus on the Latin American region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/d7b282b8-b0ae-441b-aa3c-eaabed8faa0e/Pitt+photo+ID+JAY+png.png MPE Research Affiliates - Jay Kapoor Undergraduate Research Assistant Jay Kapoor is a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Psychology on the Pre-Med track and minoring in Computer Science. He currently supports the MPE program as a research assistant, working closely with Yeneca Lee and Dr. Fernando Tomas-Aponte. Jay is also involved with Juno, an AI health platform, and contributes to a Computational Drug Discovery project focused on deep learning and structure-based approaches for drug development. His work aligns with his passion for addressing social inequality and leveraging technology to advance healthcare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/0e788437-bbd7-4bf6-a78a-ae027aecf981/Chie+headshot+7-18-23.png MPE Research Affiliates - Dr. Chie Togami Program Advisor Chie is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).Her dissertation uses qualitative methods to examine the impact of foundation funding on the strategies and tactics of new climate change social movement organizations. In addition to her dissertation, she has researched and written about air quality, environmental justice, and epistemology in Western Pennsylvania. In 2021, she produced a limited series podcast about the social and environmental legacy of the U.S. Steel Corporation. More recently, she is a collaborator on a project examining the global environmental justice impacts of the Biden-Harris lead service line replacement initiative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/0195c920-f545-4083-a65d-a497788ec1a4/ValentinaGonzalezRostani_091724_0002.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - Dr. Valentina González-Rostani Program Advisor Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2024. Valentina’s research explores the impact of technological change on political behavior and the evolution of party systems. She employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative analysis, text-as-data techniques, survey experiments, and formal modeling to examine the intersection of economic, cultural, and institutional factors. Her research interests also include international trade, inequality, and political methodology. She is currently developing machine learning tools to measure populism and using large language models (LLMs) to identify topics and stances in political discourse. Her work has been published in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Economics & Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/f699056c-ae67-4b61-b2ca-43054184f326/Unknown-3.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - Mauricio Zavaleta Quantitative Graduate Teaching Assistant Mauricio Zavaleta is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the intersection of party-building and social mobilization. He holds a B.A. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and has published work on indigenous politics, subnational governance, and party systems in the Andean region. Prior to graduate school, he served as a policy advisor in the Peruvian government on Indigenous rights and was deputy director of the Lugar de la Memoria (LUM), Peru’s national museum dedicated to memorializing the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/6c3794a7-a2f3-404e-9b83-8813f312e96d/Unknown-4.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - Adriana Rosario-Surillo Graduate Teaching Assistant Adriana holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico and an MA in Political Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is currently a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where her research focuses on comparative politics and political behavior in Latin America. She is particularly interested in how corruption, political parties, identity, and democratic backsliding impact public opinion in the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/25e40cc7-35b6-4f5b-8084-2976a995f9c6/Screenshot+2024-10-23+at+4.09.02+PM.png MPE Research Affiliates - Karim Safieddine Graduate Research Assistant Karim is a PhD student interested in understanding the ways in which social movements, for what they represent in terms of various aspects of intellectual and organizational leadership, challenge or reproduce prevailing power relations and ideological norms between late 20th and 21st century Lebanon. In this context, his research focuses on the historical and contemporary development of the "Lebanese Left", particularly in relation to other more dominant local political forces. While he heavily relies on Gramscian optics in his studies, he is open to various models and methods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/2fbf2815-7a02-4113-b1fa-d4f0b8e3bf7f/photo.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - João Alípio-Correa Quantitative Graduate Teaching Assistant João is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in political methodology and comparative politics. His interests center on causal inference and regime change processes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/d9e170d9-2e32-4b09-bd19-92ec42fa63d3/Screenshot+2024-06-11+at+11.22.14%E2%80%AFAM.png MPE Research Affiliates - Erik Durneika Graduate Teaching Assistant Erik Durneika is a Ph.D. student specializing in comparative politics and international relations. He holds an MA in Political Science from the University of South Florida. His research interests include ethnic conflict, migration, diasporas, authoritarian regimes, and transnational repression, with a focus on China and Central Asia. He is currently working on an interview-based project that explores the heterogeneity among refugees and exiles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/af1b301c-a428-4db0-ac3d-11fd731cae4e/original-AA487E7F-4DCB-43E0-A85A-63655B174C15.jpg MPE Research Affiliates - Rachel Amanor Undergraduate Research Assistant Rachel Amanor is a Sophomore (rising Junior) at the University of Pittsburgh. She majors in Computational Social Science and minors in Linguistics. She used to support the MPE program as a research assistant with Chie Togami and Dr. Fernando Tomas-Aponte. Rachel has worked with the Equity Impact Center to gain leadership skills, teamwork capabilities, and collaborative experiences. 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Isabelle Canadine Summer Fellow- 2025 Isabelle (Izzy) Canadine is currently an undergrad student at Lehigh University, majoring in Global Studies and minoring in International Relations and Religion Studies. She is a proud member of the Seldovia Village Tribe and was born in Alaska. She was adopted when she was young, and since then, she has had the opportunity to live and learn in diverse countries like Mozambique and Guatemala, which helped in an incredible way to develop her global perspective. She is a member of the first cohort as a Lehigh Soaring Together Scholar, and she continues to be dedicated to the success of women at Lehigh University and beyond. She plans to continue higher education after completing her undergraduate studies, and aspires to work with organizations like the United Nations. She hopes to be able to make a significant impact on Indigenous rights and the many other social rights issues that affect underrepresented communities in the U.S. and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/5220c6c5-f863-4b3a-9dbe-7724be2b2409/buchanan-profile.jpeg 2025 Program Alumni - India Buchanan Summer Fellow- 2025 India Buchanan is a rising junior at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). She is a double major in Political Science and American studies, with a prospective minor in Peace Studies. Her academic interests include, but are not limited to, studying the effects of American globalization, food politics & security, Native Hawaiian Politics, and the role of America within international relations. She has consistently been awarded placement on the Dean's List, and is the events planner for the Environmental Justice Club at UHM. India has been able to explore her interest in food politics through the Hawaiʻi Food+ Policy Internship, which allowed her the opportunity to study current legislation, develop testimony writing and critical research skills. India plans to diversify her understanding of politics while completing her undergraduate degree at UH Mānoa, and use the skills attained from the MPE Program to pursue a masters in Political Science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/806692be-629f-4e0d-b779-78bf4101f8a6/cofie_profile.jpg 2025 Program Alumni - Troy Cofie Summer Fellow- 2025 Troy Cofie is rising senior at Adelphi University, Garden City Campus, majoring in economics with a minor in math and political science. His research interests include macroeconomic, economic policy, monetary theory, schools of economic thought, political economy, and state-coordinated development. Troy has completed an Independent Study on the theoretical propositions and policy implications of Modern Monetary Theory, which states that a monetary sovereign nation that issues its own currency doesn't have a financial constraint. Troy is part of the Leadership Fellowship program at Adelphi, which helps connect alumni who are in leadership positions with students in order to develop students' leadership skills. Troy was part of Adelphi University's Honors College World Affairs Fellowship and Adelphi's Jaggar Community Fellowship, obtaining an internship with the Amercian Cancer Society. Troy hopes to attend graduate school in order to obtain his master's in economics and, eventually, obtain a PhD in economics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/31acc217-c318-4f8e-a86e-61834d411662/Quiroga_profile.jpeg 2025 Program Alumni - Daniela Quiroga Summer Fellow- 2025 My name is Daniela Quiroga, and I am a first-generation college student. I'm from Dallas, Texas, but I am a current Junior at Clark University in Worcester, MA. I am majoring in Sociology and Urban Studies with a minor in Political Science. Most of my research interests concern minority mobilization and empowerment, urban planning, religion and politics, socialization, and comparative politics. I have worked with the Latin American Student Association and the Revolutionary Student Association, as well as a Spanish tutor on campus and a peer mentor. After Clark, I plan to attend law school and hope to do work related to urban planning, immigration, and human rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/ef2a3642-475b-4ea4-903b-1fdea626aedf/Jordan+pic.jpg 2025 Program Alumni - Jordan Alvarado Summer Fellow- 2025 Jordan Alvarado (he/him) is a senior at the University of California, Davis majoring in History and Chicanx Studies. Working with students in the university as an academic community counselor and in juvenile detention facilities (JDF) as a volunteer educator, Jordan is interested in the impact of education on young peoples’ life outcomes. As an interdisciplinary scholar, his current and past research endeavors vary. In his Chicana/o/x Studies senior thesis, Jordan is exploring how volunteer educators in JDFs traverse the contradictory goals of education and carceral facilities. With the California History-Social Science Project, Jordan created an oral history to investigate how children in rural El Salvador navigated human rights struggles during the country’s 12-year civil war. With the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he crafted policy recommendations to support immigrants seeking naturalization. Outside of research, he is a co-coordinator for the Reintegration Academy hosted at UC Davis and is a co-founder of the Prison Education Project Club at UC Davis. After graduating, Jordan plans to pursue graduate studies to uplift marginalized educational experiences and advocate for educational access, equity, and opportunities for all. In academia and beyond, Jordan is dedicated to missions of radical imagination and critical love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/08c07e5d-2de0-4ea4-a038-7a129595f33a/Chai_profile.jpeg 2025 Program Alumni - Nona Chai Summer Fellow- 2025 Nona Chai received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California San Diego in sociology with a minor in psychology. Their passion for humanity and our relationship with Mother Earth led them to the environmental and economic justice movement, where they utilize social science training to counter harmful, extractive systems and industries in ways that center and serve those first and foremost harmed. Their research interests include international climate policy and the mobilization and political economy of a just transition to regional regenerative economies, all in the service of creating a more just and loving world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/310e9ef9-08a4-4d32-989c-bd361a467050/IMG_7836.jpg 2025 Program Alumni - Alejandra Negrón Rodríguez Summer Fellow- 2025 Alejandra graduated from the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras. She is a political science major with emphasis on international relations and comparative politics and a minor in French. Her research interests include elections, voter dynamics and authoritarian regimes. Once completed her Masters degree in Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies, she plans to pursue a PhD in comparative politics, become a professor and develop research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccb69bdec8aa60cd5025fb3/e7de6486-ed8a-4273-82a0-c863a05cf2b0/williams_headshot.jpg 2025 Program Alumni - Dominique Williams Summer Fellow- 2025 Dominique Williams is a first-year Environmental Studies major at Boston College with a concentration in Environmental Entrepreneurship and minors in Accounting for Consulting and Chinese. Her research interests include Environmental Economics, Latin American and Caribbean history, International Politics, and Public Policy. Her research interest focuses on the intersecting social, cultural and economic impacts of climatic shocks on developing nations and strategies for developing climate-resilient, sustainable economies. 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