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
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