Anna Julia Cooper Center
AJCC UNDERGRADUATE ALUM
The Anna Julia Cooper Center supports undergraduate students in multiple ways. Since the Center’s founding we have crafted various programs to support talented students working at the intersections of gender, race, and place. Some students have pursue independent research efforts. Others have participated in cohort programs. Other initiatives have supported undergraduate students who work closely with faculty members in departments across campus to pursue joint scholarly endeavors. Still others have provided mentoring, employment, social, academic support. The Anna Julia Cooper Center identifies interested students, nurtures capacity, develops skills, offers guidance, and provide resources for intersectional scholarship.
Check out where just some of our former undergraduate fellows are now!
While an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University, nia t. evans was an AJC Center Undergraduate Research Fellow. (2015). Her senior research project included meeting with representatives from the Obama administration’s White House Council on Women and Girls. She was part of the team that created the AJCC White House Conference to Advance Equity for Women and Girls of Color.
From 2021-2022, she was a Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellow at Boston Review. Her research was included as part of Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibit “Girlhood (It’s Complicated).”
Mankaprr Conteh
While an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University. Mankaprr Conteh served as the AJCC communications intern and was part of the Elle.com scholars cohort. In that role she reported live for Elle.com from the 2016 Democratic National Convention. As an undergraduate student, Mankaprr authored multiple pieces for Elle.com.
She earned a Masters from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2020. She is now a staff writer for Rolling Stone where she primarily covers hip-hop, R&B, African pop music, and occasionally comedians.
Anna Grace Tribble
While an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University, Anna Grace Tribble was an AJC Center undergraduate research fellow. (2015)
Her research focused on issues of political economy and violence against immigrant women. She examined federal and a state policy interventions addressing these communities. As part of her AJCC research Ann Grace traveled to Washington, DC and met with policy activists at United We Dream.
After graduation she pursued a PhD at Emory University in biocultural anthropology, coupled with a dual Masters in Public Health degree in Global Epidemiology. She lived and worked in in Iraqi Kurdistan with displaced women.
Anna Grace is now an anthropology Ph.D. candidate and Public Health Masters student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.
Sara Rudasill
While an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University, Sara Rudasill was an AJC Center undergraduate research fellow. (2015-2016)
Sara completed multiple research projects with AJCC. In her first project she studied the effects of Medicaid expansion on the HIV- positive community and found that broadening access to Medicaid by eliminating the categorical requirement for access would benefit tens of thousands of HIV-positive individuals living in the U.S. South. Her second project compared inequalities in breast and prostate cancer, across the US and UK. After presenting her research at an AJCC student conference she was offered a research position with Dr. Jonathan Metzl of Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. She continued to collaborate with Dr. Metzl until earning her medical degree.
Sara is now is a second year general surgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Morgan Franklin
Morgan Franklin was an AJC Center undergraduate research fellow at Tulane University (2013-2014). Morgan also worked as an AJC communications intern and spent a summer as an intern for NBC assigned to MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry.
Following graduation from Tulane, Morgan spent time as a White House intern, serving in the East Wing and working closely with First Lady Michelle Obama. She went on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School.
Morgan is now a Clinical Instructor at HNMCP and Lecturer on Law in the Negotiation Workshop at Harvard Law School.
Bianca Falcon
Bianca Falcon was an AJC Center undergraduate research fellow at Tulane University. (2012)
In 2020 she was awarded the National Association of Women Lawyers Award during her final year at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA. She is an attorney with Haight Brown & Bonesteel and a member of the firm’s Business Solutions, Employment & Labor and Professional Liability Practice Groups.