Ronna’s professional background is in disability, public health, Medicaid, and food and nutrition policy. She has worked in partnership with cities, states, tribes, territorial governments, and international organizations, including serving as Regional Director for...Read more about Ronna Bach
Prior to studying at Cal, Megan graduated from Boston University, receiving their Bachelor’s in Mass Communications with a Public Relations emphasis along with minors in African American Studies, Medical Anthropology, and Music. While working for a small public relations firm, they joined
Meikko has spent nearly a decade as an educator and lifelong learner, specializing in Afrofuturist media and its capacity to capture the hopes and histories of Black Americans. She holds a B.A. in English from UC Santa Barbara, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College....Read more about Meikko Lee
Katherine is a folklorist and dancer whose research interests center on Lindy Hop and the history of Afro-Diasporic dance in the United States. She holds a B.A. in English and a minor in Psychology from UC Berkeley, where she conducted undergraduate research on...Read more about Katherine (Kacey) Pitcher
Micah's research broadly explores the relationship between Yiddish, Folklore, and the archive. Drawing on media studies, performance studies, and diaspora and transnational studies, they are currently researching the glitches in transmission of modern Yiddish subjecthood through...Read more about Micah Wilson
Daisy is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Folklore. Her dissertation examines ruins, ruination, and archaeology in Rome during Italian Unification (1870–71), a moment when the emerging field of anthropology (demoetnografia...Read more about Daisy Ament
Lauren Bartone is a PhD student in Italian Studies with a designated emphasis in folklore.
Her background as a visual artist strongly informs her approach to studying Italian culture. Before joining the Department of Italian Studies...Read more about Lauren Bartone
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM)
Mairi is a doctoral student in UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management's Division of Society and Environment, with a designated emphasis from the Folklore Graduate Group. She is a data driven storyteller, seedkeeper, writer, and researcher...Read more about Mairi Creedon
Ahkeel Mestayer is a Doctoral student of Ethnomusicology and active musician in the SF Bay Area. His research and performance are rooted in Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian folkloric genres, embodied histories, performance as history, sonic ontologies, affect and trance, and organology. His...Read more about Ahkeel Mestayer
Michele Segretario is a Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
His dissertation, Diasporic Soundscapes of Fascism: Radio, Music, and Religious Festivals in Italian America, is an investigation of Italian diasporic...Read more about Michele Segretario
Hanqing Zhao is a doctoral student in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and is pursuing a designated emphasis in Folklore.
Hanqing cares about the vast availability of meanings that rest in the indeterminacy of the human visual field, which encompasses ordinary, everyday...Read more about Hanqing Zhao
