FIRST-YEAR FELLOWS

Click the names below to learn about alumni who successfully completed the RIC mentorship program and have gone on to start a PhD!
*Each first-year fellow is awarded an unrestricted 2500 USD fellowship to use in their transition to graduate school.

Luis Basurto
Cornell University
2019-2020 Alumni

Darien Kearney
Howard University
2020-2021 Alumni

Marcia Ruiz
University of Michigan
2021-2022 Alumni

Nishan Jones
University of Michigan
2022-2023 Alumni

Aja Kennedy
Tufts University
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Jostin Kitmang
Harvard University
2022-2023 RIC Alumni

Anaïs Toungui
Tufts University
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Hector Reyes
Stanford University
2019-2020 RIC Alumni

Tanya Sethi
University of Virginia
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Precious Fasakin
Univ. of California, San Diego
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Daisy Lu
University of Chicago
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Decory Edwards
Johns Hopkins University
2019-2020 RIC Alumni

Kayla Jones
Cornell University
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Sodiq Oladipupo
University of Arizona
2022-2023 RIC Alumni

Andrea Cristina Ruiz
Vanderbilt University
2021-2022 RIC Alumni

Nicolas Dominguez Mel
University of Maryland
2022-2023 RIC Alumni

Vaasavi Unnava
Ohio State University
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Sebastián Puerta
University of California, Berkeley
2019-2020 RIC Alumni

Cristina Glave
Pardee RAND Graduate School
2021-2022 RIC Alumni

James Monroe Gamble IV
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2020-2021 RIC Alumni

Abdulmuttolib Salako
University of California, Berkeley
2022-2023 RIC Alumni

Kaythari Maw
Syracuse University
2021-2022 RIC Alumni