Lizet Garcia '23 Awarded the Antonio Maceo Award for Racial Justice
Geography alum Lizet Garcia '23 is one of the two Mellon Mays fellows receiving Dartmouth awards for outstanding contributions to their fields. In their thesis, Garcia (who uses she/they pronouns), examined a phenomenon known as the "school-to-prison pipeline", which refers to the disproportionate funneling of youth from nonwhite and low-income backgrounds into systems of carcerality. Agatha Bordonaro writes:
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