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Gillian Frackelton
Gillian Frackelton is a senior in the Jackson School of International Studies within the international human rights, law, state & society track. She is also working towards a minor in Geography. Gillian has been a research intern for Professor Lang for three years, utilizing a coding system that tracks the work of European Women's Rights NGOs through their online media. Gillian used this research to participate in the UW Research Symposium last Spring quarter. She also spent the summer interning at the State Department in Washington DC, working in Public Diplomacy to promote the United States to international audiences. Gillian is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and speaks Spanish. She is on track to graduate Winter quarter, 2011 and post graduation plans to travel in South America for six months.
Aylan Lee is a senior honors candidate in the Geography department, concentrating in Urban, Social and Political Geographies. In addition to his BA in Geography, Aylan expects to graduate with a minor in music. His research and academic interests currently revolve around Political Ecology and the roles of NGOs in development and society. During his time at UW, Aylan has worked on research with several faculty members and graduate students in both the Jackson School and the Geography department. For the past two years he has been conducting a media analysis of American NGOs with Professor Lang. This research was presented at both the University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium and before faculty at the Geography department's annual research symposium.
Christopher Schulz is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the honors program within the Jackson School of International Studies. He is a founding member of the UW-based and independent Antechamber Collective, as well as a Mary Gates Scholar. In his formal work through the university, he is currently writing a thesis on the pressures of cultural commodification, gender, and mobility in the post-Cold War Cuban tourist economy. Outside of class he focuses on topics ranging from critical analyses of security discourse and militarization to anti-colonial feminism. In addition to participation in several community-based Seattle action groups, he works on independent research for organizing against the escalating privatization of American higher education. |
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