Undergraduate Director’s Fellows

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

August Rios is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College majoring in sociology, with a broad fascination for cities. As a low-income student from a large family of eight, he is particularly interested in identifying policy solutions to the affordable housing crisis. August is currently serving as a data and legislative affairs intern at the City of New Haven Fair Rent Commission, a data collector at the United Way of Connecticut, and a YULAA project lead at Statewide Legal Services.

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Tony Ruan is a third-year student from Phoenix, Arizona completing the BA/MA in Political Science, as well as completing the Education Studies Scholars Intensive Certificate. A public school student at the time of the 2018 Red for Ed teacher strike, Tony is broadly interested in the potential of the labor movement to reject reactionism and instead inspire long-term, sustainable mobilization for economic and political justice.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Arjun Warrior is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight college, studying America’s ongoing democratic crisis. He’s interested in institutions and movements that foster social justice and democracy, especially in the face of state oppression. In practice, this means he’s passionate about constitutional design, electoral reform, workplace democracy, unionization, social welfare, and mutual aid. He’s worked on organizing, policy, and speechwriting for progressive campaigns and elected officials in his hometown of Irvine, California.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Megan Wright spent more than a decade as a professional dancer in New York and San Francisco. Her experiences in the dance industry led her to worker organizing and brought her to the City University of New York’s School of Labor & Urban Studies, where she studied labor relations. She came to Yale in her thirties as an Eli Whitney undergraduate student. Wright is majoring in economics with a certificate in Persian & Iranian Studies.

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