Naiima Khahaifa (Post-Doc '24) joins the Department of African & African American Studies as an Assistant Professor at Duke University.
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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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Geography alumni Jimena Perez '23 and Lizet Garcia '23 credit the Mellon Mays Fellowship with helping them network with graduate programs to pursue a PhD and further their research.
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Garcia wrote that it was important to "do the work to denaturalize these structures but at the same time work towards a better future," they said. Garcia intends to focus on ideas that "center care and love and center youth voices."
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"I still write 'geographer' when I have to indicate my profession on a form."
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