Students
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisor: Pedro Regalado
Peer Mentor: Mercedes Martinez Milantchi
Atlanta native Annis Joelle Barron graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors from Spelman College, where she majored in Spanish Language and Literature. Annis is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Delta Sigma Pi Honor Societies. Her dedication to social justice and equality has earned her participation in multiple fellowships. In 2022, Annis enjoyed the privilege of completing a fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara Afrolatinidades Institute, where she studied Afro-Latinx poetry, film, music, and literature. In 2023 Annis participated in a...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisors: David Grusky and Alberto Diaz
Peer Mentor: Christian Robles-Baez
Fabián Carchi was born and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Columbia University, where he studied Economics and Latin American and Iberian Cultures. His award-winning thesis explored the intricate interplay between capital markets, fiat money, and Diego Rivera’s art as a literary and economic construct within Mexico, and Latin America at large.
Beyond academia, Fabián's professional experience includes roles at prestigious institutions such as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, and the City University of New...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisor: Ana Raquel Minian
Peer Mentor: Christian Robles-Baez
Fabiola Cruz Li was born in Lima, Peru and moved to Toronto, Canada at the age of fourteen. As a refugee claimant and later refugee in Canada, Fabiola understands the challenges asylum seekers and refugees face when navigating new institutions and often in new languages. During this time, higher education often seemed out of reach to her. As a result, Fabiola is determined to show asylum seekers and refugees that these spaces are accessible.
Fabiola holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, where she...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisor: Regina Pieck
Peer Mentor: Mercedes Martinez Milantchi
Chenyu Deng was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. She graduated with honors from Peking University with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature. Her coursework included literature, history, sociology, Spanish-Chinese translation, and cultural studies.
Chenyu is particularly interested in gender-based violence, sexual-gender identities, and the transgression of dichotomous logic in the narratives of 20th and 21st-century writers in Latin America. Her undergraduate thesis focused on Selva Almada’s writing of femicides in Argentina in the book Dead Girls, exploring how texts, as part of a community, interact with...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Tarlau
Peer Mentor: Christian Robles-Baez
Hello, my name is Yuritzi Estrada, I was born in Oxnard but grew up in Goleta California. I majored in Chicano/Chicana studies as an undergraduate at the University of California Los Angeles.
I grew up surrounded by my Latinx community and was involved in many community cultural groups, one being Folkorico. I also spent my time in High school being involved in grassroots programs, advocating for ethnic studies to be taught in high school, implementing restorative transformative approaches, and culturally responsive material in classrooms. I have volunteered and worked...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisors: Gordon Chang and Mikael Wolfe
Peer Mentor: Esteban Salmon Perrilliat
Botao He was born and raised in Chengdu, China. He graduated with top honors from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature. Botao gained a preliminary understanding of Latin America's economy, culture, and politics through his undergraduate courses. His undergraduate thesis focused on the coverage of the Mexican Revolution in Chinese newspapers during the Republic of China period. Before coming to Stanford, Botao spent a semester on exchange in Mexico and visited countries such as Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisors: José David Saldívar and Héctor Hoyos
Peer Mentor: Mercedes Martinez Milantchi
Born in Valencia, Venezuela, Paola Parra emigrated to Miami, Florida at the age of eight. In 2023, Paola graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida International University with a B.A. in Global Studies and a focus on Sociology. Her undergraduate coursework encompassed a myriad of topics from International Relations to Latinx Sexualities and covered subjects such as anthropology, geography, and politics.
From a young age, Paola has been working hand-in-hand with Hispanic/Latine immigrants such as herself utilizing her bilingual skills to facilitate communication and...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisors: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Rose Salseda
Peer Mentor: Mercedes Martinez Milantchi
Brandon Rubio was born and raised in Brentwood, California in the East Bay Area. He was a Regent and Chancellor’s Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with top honors studying both Ethnic Studies and Political Science in 2021.
During his final year as an undergraduate at Cal, he completed an ethnographic project exploring the history of braceros in the development of his hometown and how they are erased from history. Having studied and trained as a Chicano Anthropologist, he...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisor: Alberto Diaz
Peer Mentor: Esteban Salmon Perrilliat
Rebeca Sauly Santa Maria Granados was born and raised in Tlaxcala, Mexico. At the age of fifteen, she migrated to New Orleans. As a Posse scholar, she graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame, earning a B.A. in Political Science and Global Affairs with a concentration in Latin American Studies.
During her undergraduate career, Rebeca interned at the Embassy of Mexico in Rome and D.C. and at the Mexican Cultural Institute in D.C. She worked as a research assistant for various projects focused on Latin America...
Class of 2024
Faculty Advisor: Beatriz Magaloni
Solange Melissa Severino de Oliveira was born and raised in Brazil, in the cities of Manaus and São Paulo. She is a coterm student majoring in Political Science, with a minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Melissa is particularly passionate about development politics and aims to work with public policy towards gender equality.
She is currently writing a thesis under the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, in which she aims to explore the influence that gender policy preferences have in the voting decisions of Brazilian women. She also...
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...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisors: Zephyr Frank and Diana Klinger
Peer Mentor: Christian Robles-Baez
Xinwen Zhang (Qinenru Zhang) was born and raised in Guizhou, China, and graduated with honors from the University of Macau with a Bachelor of Arts in Portuguese Studies. During her undergraduate years, her coursework focused mainly on linguistics, translation, and the culture of Portuguese-speaking countries. With a special interest in Brazilian literature and gender studies, her thesis aimed to analyze the distinctive gender perspectives and interior monologues in Clarice Lispector's novel, Near to the Wild Heart, and explore the author's positive influence on the Brazilian feminist...
Class of 2025
Faculty Advisors: Mikael Wolfe and Javier Mejia
Peer Mentor: Esteban Salmon Perrilliat
Rachel Zila Hidalgo was born in Anaheim, California and grew up in Lima, Peru. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, she majored in International Relations. Rachel is interested in immigration policy, human rights, and internacional policy. Rachel is passionate about learning how to apply all of these to bridge the economic disparities and resources in Latin America.
Rachel is currently a research analyst intern for The Generational Lab start up where she is learning a lot about youth polling analysis and consulting strategies. She has...