PhD/JD, University of California, Berkeley and Yale University
Currently, Sati is finishing his PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy after receiving his JD from Yale Law School, where he was the Symposium Editor for the Yale Journal for Law and the Humanities. Sati’s dissertation project, titled A Punishment of the Severest Kind: Deportations, Rights, and the Rise of a New Criminal Law, examines the intersection of criminal law and immigration law through a philosophical lens. He is a 2019 recipient of the Thomas I. Yamashita FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE Prize, an award given to a scholar-activist in California whose work bridges the gap between the...
Gabriela Jauregui is a fourth-year at UC Berkeley studying Sociology and Political Economy. As the daughter of two immigrant parents, she witnessed and experienced the challenge of obtaining access to services and therefore is interested in immigration to further look into the aspect of access or lack thereof, that immigrants have to non-profit organizations. Gebriela Jauregui has worked as a BIMI Undergraduate Research Fellow in the Mapping Spatial Inequality Project developing and conducting online and phone surveys to collect data on immigrant-serving organizations in the Summer of 2019...
Dewi Zarni graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2021, where she majored in American Studies with a concentration in Race, Migration, and the Carceral State. Dewi was exposed to the complexities of the immigration process and its impact on families through her father's experience as an asylee. She developed her understanding of the legal system and the factors behind migration while volunteering at the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and interning for a local immigration attorney, where she interviewed Spanish-speaking clients about their experiences and interpreted for attorneys. During her...
Chelsea Muir is a 2L at Berkeley Law. During law school, she has conducted refugee casework for the International Refugee Assistance Project and volunteered with the ACLU and Innovation Law Lab to advocate for relief for detained immigrants threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a policy and communications fellow for the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, she has conducted research and written policy briefs on the topic of immigration
Based on a mixed-method approach, my dissertation explores the effects of legal status for Mexican older adult immigrants in the U.S. and return migrants to Mexico. In particular, this research focuses on the factors that facilitate or hinder how older adult immigrants access economic, family, medical and psychological support and the strategies they deploy as they age. I investigate how these differ across countries and by legal status.
Jasdeep graduated from the Sciences Po Paris- UC Berkeley Dual BA program, where he graduated summa cum laude with BAs in Political Humanities and Sociology, and a minor in Data Science. During college, Jasdeep has interned with Save the Children Jordan, the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Singapore-Indian EdTech startup. He is interested in the governance of emerging technologies, notably artificial intelligence, and applying quantitative methods to energy policy. As a President Scholar with the Government of Singapore, he will be joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Nina Narahari is a current third-year student at UC Berkeley double majoring in Political Science and History. After taking Prof. Bloemraad’s sociology class, Nina became interested in immigration policy and researching its domestic impacts. She works as a reporter at the Daily Californian and wrote an article on how COVID-19 is affecting the asylum-seeking process. Nina Narahari is BIMI Undergraduate Communications Fellow (2020) and is working on compiling a policy brief analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on immigrant
Douglas Epps is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. He holds a dual bachelor’s degree in psychology and social welfare (magna cum laude) and a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington. His research applies a critical, action-oriented framework to interrogate the rise of punitive immigration responses and envision macro alternatives that respect the dignity and worth of all human beings. His current project seeks to understand how collective action framing can influence public attitudes toward eliminating immigration...
Eliza Hollingsworth worked as an Undergraduate Research Fellow for BIMI during the 2019 Summer semester working on writing a policy brief about Immigrants' access to services in the Bay Area. Eliza is a third-year undergraduate student from Oakland, CA with a keen interest in the public health effects of conflict, displacement, and migration. She is pursuing a BA in Global Studies with minors in Public Health and Public Policy, and outside of class, she works part-time as a caseworker at the International Rescue Committee. She hopes to work both in direct service to immigrant communities...
