Carmen M. Santiago, BFACarmen is a first year graduate student in the Masters of City and Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School of Rutgers-New Brunswick. During her time at Kean, she studied Interior Design which had sparked her interest of researching how certain environments impact the success and health of individuals within certain spaces. She has conducted […]John Paul (JP) RosewaterJohn Paul Rosewater is a graduate student in his third year of the Public Policy and Community Development program at Rutgers University-Camden. His research interests include power disparities, material inequality, and the impact of market-based ideologies. Over the last two years he has been proud to work with both the Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community […]Mnguashima V. Soomiyol, MSMnguashima V. Soomiyol is a Ph.D. student in the Public Affairs and Community Development program at Rutgers University–Camden. Her research interests focus on livelihood, nonprofit organizations, community-based research, and interventions and initiatives aimed at improving access and fostering social justice in distressed and vulnerable communities. Mnguashima is dedicated to studying and understanding interventions and public […]Yanan LiYanan Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Affairs at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research focuses on social capital and social class mobility, with a particular emphasis on spatial analysis. She has received comprehensive training in both quantitative and qualitative analysis and has a strong ability in data visualization. Melissa A. Thompson, M. EdMelissa A. Thompson is a Ph.D. student in the Public Affairs and Community Development program at Rutgers University Camden. Melissa’s research interests center around pathways for Black liberation, youth and urban poverty, education, and housing. Melissa was a former Teach for America corps member and currently lives in and serves on multiple non-profit boards in […]Stephen Danley, D. PHILStephen Danley is the Director of the Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE)and an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers-Camden University. He is author of A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City. He researches protest, such as in his article “They’re Not Building It for Us”: Displacement Pressure, […]Tysha Saffold, MSN, RN, PhDDr. Tyshaneka Saffold is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden. Dr. Saffold is an advocate who is passionate about improving the health of those in underserved populations. Her core values shape her philosophy of nursing: everyone deserves to be treated with kindness and compassion regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Her […]Sarah Allred, Ph.D.Sarah Allred, PhD, is Associate Professor in Psychology at Rutgers University – Camden, and came to the University in 2009 after three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Allred earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior from the University of Washington. She also holds a BS in Applied Physics with minors […]