The Stanford Center for Racial Justice is pleased to welcome our first group of research assistants. They will work with Rick Banks, Faculty Director, to explore unique and challenging questions related his research. These areas include critical race theory and racial inequalities in higher education, race, democracy, and other policy and law related issues. We are excited to welcome their impressive range of professional, academic, and personal experiences to the Center in this winter quarter.
Meet Our Winter 2023 Research Associates
Aneliese (she/her), a third-year Stanford Law School student from Los Angeles, is interested in improving health inequities and correcting structural racism within the U.S. healthcare system through public health advocacy and health law reform. She earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a Public Health Advocacy Fellow while there and was awarded the Lee Thomanssen Healthcare Finance Fellowship. She also won the UCLA Sinaiko Business Plan Competition. While in Los Angeles, she interned at the Children’s Law Center. She is currently the Diversity Chair at Stanford Law Review. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at the Robert Crown Law Library for two years. She is also a member of: the Stanford Latinx Law Students Association; the Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association – APILSA; the Women of Color Collective – WoCC; and the Older Wiser Law Students – OWLs span>
Ross, a 1L at Stanford Law School, was born and raised in Denver. His research focuses on the interconnected effects of economic and racial inequality on American democracy. Ross earned his bachelor’s degree in history and government at Georgetown before he moved to Stanford. Ross was president of the Georgetown ACLU and a Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. He also worked as a Student Strategist at the McCourt School of Public Policy. His thesis examined the effect of foreign policy on Supreme Court decisions on race in the 20th Century. Ross graduated in 2020 and went on to Oxford to complete an MPhil in Comparative Politics. His master’s thesis examined the mechanisms that sustain racial inequality and economic inequalities in progressive communities throughout the United States. Ross works as a volunteer at Stanford for the Housing and Social Security Disability Pro Bono Projects and is an editor of Stanford Environmental Law Journal.