Kallie L.V. White

Class of 2025

Faculty Advisor: Zephyr Frank

Peer Mentor: Esteban Salmon Perrilliat

Kallie L.V. White is from Pomona, California. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Kallie majored in Political Science with her primary focus in Justice and Law, and secondary focus in Elections, Representation, and Governance. 

Kallie is interested in human rights, political theory, philosophy, and political activism. Specifically, Kallie aims to provide an analytical outlook on the Brazilian carceral system and the relationship between the carceral system and punishment through the genealogy of prisons in tandem with the evolution of the practice of punishment in Brazil. 

As a master’s student in Latin American Studies at Stanford, she aims to integrate normative and empirical theories by looking at the current discrepancies that systematically affect Brazilians daily. At the same time, theorizing why humans tend to lead toward punitive punishment across national border lines or why the Black diaspora and those from lower socioeconomic tend to fall burdened with punishment from the state transnationally. This is a continuation from her undergraduate question of what it means to delegate and sponsor justice and being able to develop a full comprehensive theory of justice would include seeing the interconnectedness between each country as ideas and conditions cede state boundaries.

Peer Mentor: Esteban Salmon Perrilliat