Meet Our SURGE Participants
Changing The Landscape of Research and Practice
2018 Cohort
Muritala Adegoke
Civil Engineering,
Morgan State University
Lilian Bui
Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miriam Commodore - Mensah
Social Work
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Sahar Derakhshan
Geography
University of South Carolina
Isaiah Higgs
East Carolina University
Urban Planning
Rashon Lane
Medical Sociology
University of California, San Francisco
Covel McDermot
Urban Ecology
University of Delaware
Farah Nibbs
Disaster Science
University of Delaware
Génesis Álvarez Rosario
Social Policy and Human Services Management
University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras
Shanasia Sylman
Urban Planning
Harvard University
2019 Cohort
Luz E. Agudelo
Environmental Studies
College of Charleston
Paula Buchanan
Emergency Management
Jacksonville State University
Gillian Maris Jones
Anthropology and Africana Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Julian Jones
Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tuskegee University
Ashley J. Méndez Heavilin
Social Planning
University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
Karen Montes-Berríos
Disaster Science and Management
University of Delaware
Danielle Nicholson
Industrial Engineering
Florida A&M University
Christina Kaululani Sun
Global Health Epidemiology
University of Washington
Mehari K. Tesfay
Architectural Engineering
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Morolake Omoya
Civil Engineering
University of California Los Angeles
Olivia Vilá
Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
North Carolina State University