Ali Zuercher

Ali is interested in working in interventions that address the relationship between the built environment and health, specifically in affordable housing and community development. Outside of school, she enjoys hiking,

Austin Wang

Austin is studying for his master’s in computer science under the computer science department’s BS/MS track. Outside of school, he enjoys taking photos, making videos and working on software for

Amanda Swanson

Amanda is a second-year D.D.S. student at the Adams School of Dentistry. While learning alongside pharmacy students during my undergraduate studies at Ohio Northern University, it was there that she

Daniela Sostaita

Daniela (she/her/ella) is an MPH student in the health equity concentration interested in reproductive justice, adolescent health, and sex positive education. She hopes to learn more about designing creative tools

Emily Rose Skywark

Emily Rose Skywark serves as the Design Thinking Fellow at Innovate Carolina, a role that allows her to work with faculty, students, and community partners to optimize design thinking’s mindsets

Laurie Schaecher

Laurie is an MPH student concentrating in health policy. With the current political divisions and climate around health care, she is hoping to use the CIPG training to build solutions

Noah Rubin

Noah’s research involves expanding a technique that measures individual motor neuron firings noninvasively to analyze neurophysiology and improve control of assistive devices for amputees. Outside of graduate school, he enjoys

Abby Rinderle

Abby is interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of harm reduction programs, specifically those aimed towards substance use disorders. Outside of grad school, Abby likes to hike, paint, knit,

Lianza Reyes

Lianza is interested in the intersection of accessibility, UX research, and communications. She hopes to use the CIPG experience to learn how she can take her research to next level

Rohini Rajgopal

Rohini Rajgopal is currently pursuing her MBA/MSPH dual degree with the Kenan-Flagler Business School and Gillings School of Global Public Health. In her free time, she loves to play soccer,

Ricky Pimentel

Ricky studies how people walk and how our walking ability changes as we age. In his free time, he enjoys being out in nature – hiking, mountain biking, skiing or

Thomas Persico

Thomas is a Master of Public Administration student in the School of Government. His focus centers on public policy and administration in international relations and promoting public service as a

Snigdha Peddireddy

Snigdha’s research interests are focused on the structural determinants of health and policies that may perpetuate or protect against harm, particularly at the intersection of alcohol policy and violence. Outside

Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan is a third-year dental student at UNC-Chapel Hill interested in both public health and pediatric dentistry. Outside of school, she loves yoga and cooking. Through the CIPG, Sarah

Sally Moore

Sally is a student in the Master’s in Public Administration program while working full-time as director of undergraduate programming at the Parr Center for Ethics. She enjoys backpacking, canoeing, making

Rachel Miller

Rachel is studying federal health policy with an equity lens in reference to who decides how much healthcare people receive and how they pay for it. Her previous research interests

Kyle McQuillan

Kyle is a PhD student hoping to study contemporary Latin American literature and its intersections with health and migration. Outside of graduate school, Kyle loves to cook, read and spend

Irene Manning

Irene is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, where she is advised by Prof. Frank Leibfarth. Her research is focused on developing new materials for remediation of per-

Megan Hoyt

Megan is student in the School of Social Work, in the three-year part-time program in Winston-Salem. Outside of grad school, you can find her hanging with friends on her front

Christine Heffernan

Christine is a second-year MBA student at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School with a concentration in sustainable enterprise. In her free time, she enjoys running, backpacking, cooking, community organizing and

Lauren Hawkinson

Lauren is a certified athletic trainer (ATC), who has worked clinically with women’s basketball at the University of Richmond and with men’s and women’s swimming and diving at the University

Brianna Guthrie

Brianna is a fifth-year PhD candidate working on images of maternity and matriarchy in 17th-century English visual culture. When she is not writing or teaching, she enjoys cooking, traveling and

Matt Gannon

Matt is a first-year master’s media and communication student in the strategic communication area of study. Outside of grad school, he loves hiking, golfing and making music. In his CIPG

Marvin Espinoza-Leiva

Marvin is an education management professional working on founding a charter school founded upon the combined principles of liberatory education and technological skill development to serve its community. Outside of

Amanda Davis

Amanda is a second-year doctor of audiology student, with a primary focus on adult hearing health care. Growing up in rural North Carolina, she witnessed disparities in health care access

Sarah Casteel

Sarah Casteel is a master’s student in the information science program at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she is focusing in human-computer interaction and user experience. Outside of grad school, she enjoys

Marissa Carmi

Marissa studies Indigenous political theorizing and is particularly interested in Indigenous conceptualizations of nationhood and citizenship. She lives on 30 acres in rural North Carolina and enjoys cooking with the

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