Jada
PhD candidate
Expertise
Clinical psychology, Sexuality, Racial and Gender Discrimination, Mental Health, Social Justice Issues, Maternal Psychology,
Research Program Mentors
Polygence mentors are selected based on their exceptional academic background, teaching experience, and unique ability to inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers and industry leaders.
Elizabeth
PhD candidate
Expertise
Health Disparities, Demography, Computational Methods, Social Networks, Social Media, Social Inequality
Claire
MSW
Expertise
Public health, reproductive health, sexual health, violence prevention, advocacy, clinical therapy
Rebecca
MA
Expertise
Memorialization culture (monuments, memorials, and museums); Public history; Genocide, crimes against humanity, and mass atrocities; History of human rights; Germany [German literature, poetry, film, and art]; 20th century; World War II
Imma
PhD candidate
Expertise
Sociology, immigration, environment, gender, sexuality, activism, social justice, politics
Darnell
MBA candidate
Expertise
Finance/Financial Services, Wealth Management, Business (multi-member LLC experience), and Poetry, Creative Writing, Published Art Works
Zoey
MD/PhD candidate
Expertise
economics, medicine, healthcare, public health, policy, data science, classics, biology, chemistry
Isaias
PhD candidate
Expertise
Ethnic Studies, Performance Studies (Race and Gender), Comparative Literature, Contemporary US Literature, Contemporary Latin American Literature, Literary Analysis, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Latinx Studies, Race in America, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Abjection, Affect, Aesthetics, Decolonial Pedagogy, Creative Writing, Autofiction, Fiction, Experimental Writing, Personal Epistemology as Knowledge-Making
Vicky
PhD candidate
Expertise
Clinical Psychology, Community Psychology, Mental Health, Adolescence, Culture, Parent-child relationships, Coparenting relationships, Minority mental health, Racial disparities, Public policy, Nonprofits
Raheem
Industry expert
Expertise
marketing, consumer behavior, entrepreneurship, journalism, market research, journalism, culture, music, urban studies, civic engagement, community
Megan
MD/PhD candidate
Expertise
Medicine, biostatistics, bioinformatics, neuroscience, autism, athletics, big data, disparities
Tara
PhD
Expertise
AI/tech policy, international security (including arms control/nonproliferation), democracy and authoritarianism, human rights, political violence, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, gender, U.S. government. I am pretty open to working with students to make their project work for them,
Kalifa
MD candidate
Expertise
Projects that approach medicine from a public health perspective; Understanding the global implications of health policy; Using quantitative and qualitative analysis
Cortlyn
EdM
Expertise
Education, Educational Leadership, Cultural Diversity and Inclusion, Biology, Business
Peichi
EdD
Expertise
Education, social sciences, cultural studies, psychology and emotional well-being, NGO/nonprofits, business, gender issues, poverty, program development and evaluations, parent participation, foreign language learning or teaching, faith/religion