Current Scholars & Recent Graduates
Current McNair Scholars
Sarah Lopez (she/her)
Research Interests: Adjustment Process, Prison Reform, Criminal Justice
B.S. in Psychology, Criminal Justice (May 2024)
Mingyue Lao (he/him)
Research Interests: Marketing Strategies, Correlations
B.S. in Business Administration, Marketing (May 2024)
Janice Perez-Gomez (she/her)
Research: Social Media Usage During COVID-19
B.S. in Finance (May 2024)
Daniela Martins (she/her)
Research: Religion, Philosophy, and It's Influence on Italian Renaissance Art
B.A. in Art History (May 2024)
Jocelyn Sammy (she/her)
Research: Impacts of Interactive Play on a Child's Mental Health
B.S. in Psychology (May 2024)
Cristina N. Castillo (she/her)
Research: U.S. Intervention in the 70's-Early 2000's Impacts on Latin-American Countries' Development and Stability
B.S. in Business Administration, Global Business & Marketing (May 2024)
Nataijah King Whittle (she/her)
Research: Black Women in Business & How Could Jobs do More to Accept the Whole Individual
B.S. in Business Administration, Management (May 2026)
Isabelle Belice (she/her)
Research: Self-Reliance in the Face of Race
B.A. in English (May 2025)
Jade Buchanan (she/her)
Research: Sexual Assault Recovery, Trauma, and Clinical Psychology
B.S. in Sociology (May 2026)
Brandon Barbosa (he/him)
Research: Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions to Agreement Scores in the U.N.
B.S. in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (May 2025)
Kayci Resende-Abbott (she/her)
Research: Philosophy of Identity and How We Perceive Ourselves and Others
B.S. in Philosophy (May 2025)
Clinton Oreofe (he/him)
Research: Property Taxes and Their Impacts on Educational Inequality
B.S. in Criminal Justice (May 2025)
Shreesha Jamkatel (she/her)
Research: Impact of Mental Health on Young South Asian Kids and Their Perceptions
B.S. in Psychology (May 2025)
Samira Kerkach (she/her)
Research: Mass Incarceration on Lower-Income Communities & Pretrial Detention
B.A. in English (December 2024)
Lee Bravo (they/them)
Research: Does Your Upbringing Affect Who You Become?
B.A. in Law UG (May 2025)
Marcela Melendez Escobar
Research: Characteristics of protein wBm0152 in the Wolbachia pipientis and Brugia malayi relationship
B.S. in Biochemistry (Graduated May 2023)
Naylene Rivera
Research: Emotions & Dreams: A Correlational Study
B.S. in Biology (Graduated May 2023)
Nicole Kingdon
Research: Qualitative Analysis of Head Start, COVID-19
B.A. in Psychology (Graduated May 2023)
Lindsay Dieudonne
Research: Food for Thought: Assessing Accessibility: Using WIC and SNAP Enrollment Data Health Care In The American Carceral System: A Graded Report on Health Care Policies
B.A. in Government (Graduated May 2023)
Sarah Lawton
Research: Race & Ethnicity, Education Curriculum, Critical Race Theory
B.A. in History (Graduated May 2023)
Andrea Muszka
Research: Cyberdelics, VR Simulation as Treatment Resistant Psychology Therapy
B.A. in Psychology (Graduated May 2023)
Johensky Celestin
Research: Mental Health in Haitian Communities
B.A. in Psychology (Graduated May 2023)
Angela El Jazzar
Research: International Refugee, Financial Aid
B.S. in Business Administration. Finance (Graduated May 2023)
Ian De Musis Cardoso
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
B.S. in Computer Science (Graduated May 2023)
Lella Woolery
Research: Understanding Juvenile Offenders
B.A. in Psychology (Graduated December 2022)
Monica Prudencio
Research: Self-Forgiveness on Personal Well-Being Among Adults
B.A. in Psychology (Graduated December 2022)
Recent McNair Graduates
Previous Scholars
| Name | Degrees Completes and In Progress |
|---|---|
| Lismar Garcia | BA in Government, International Relations, May 2020 |
| Maria Cecilia Gomez | BA in Economics and Politics, Philosophy, & Econ, May 2020 PhD in Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, Expected 2027 |
| Mariama Kamara | BS in Business Administration, Marketing, May 2020 MA in Marketing, University of Southern California, May 2022 |
| Steven Lopez Toro | BS in Economics, May 2020 |
| Esteban Marte | BS in Biology, May 2020 MS in Biology, Boston College, Expected 2023 |
| Danilo Martinez | BS in Business Administration, Marketing, May 2020 MA in Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, May 2022 |
| Mary Siriboe | BS in Chemistry, May 2020 PhD in Chemistry, University of Rochester, Expected 2025 |
| Etiana Alcius Etienne | BS in Sociology, Crime and Justice, May 2019 PsyD, William James College, Expected 2024 |
| Antonio Amaro Diaz | BS in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, May 2019 MEd in Higher Ed, University of Maryland College Park, May 2021 |
| Jazmin Cruz-Flores | BA in Psychology, May 2019 |
| Shaina Dorlean | BS in Biology, May 2019 Medical Training, UniCamilus - International University of Health and Medical Sciences, Roma, Italy, Expected 2022 |
| Lilianne Exinor | BS in Psychology, May 2019 |
| Isis Garcia-Rodriguez | BS in Psychology, May 2019 PhD in Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Expected 2024 |
| Iman Ghazi | BS in Biology, September 2019 Medical Training, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Expected 2024 |
| Majeed Ghazi | BS in Biology, Health Careers, January 2019 |
| Mileika Jaime | BS in Biology, May 2019 |
| Darlley Joselus | BS Government, Law and Public Policy, January 2019 MA in International Relations, Penn State University, Expected 2022 |
| Kaitlin Morrill | BS in Business Administration, Accounting, May 2019 MS in Taxation, Bentley University, May 2022 |
| Sheikh “Nash” Nasher | BS in Computer Science, May 2019 Data Science Grad Certificate, Harvard Extension School, 2021 |
| Beverly Nwankwo | BS in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, May 2019 |
| Sabrina Pierre | BS in Government, May 2019 |
| Sara Solomon | BS Government, Law and Public Policy, May 2019 |
| Taylor White | BS in Biology, May 2019 MA in Medical Writing, New York University, May 2020 |
| Nehizena Young-Edo | BS in Biology, Health Careers |
| Name | Degrees Completed and In Progress |
| John Brown | BS in Sociology, May 2018 |
| Paul Johnson | BS in Physics, May 2018 MS in Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2020 PhD in Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Expected 2023 |
| Marissa Kaufman | BS in Biology, Biotechnology, May 2018 |
| Givany Lopes | BS in Biology, May 2018 |
| Fernando Lopez | BS in Business Administration, Marketing, May 2018 MEd in Higher Ed, University of Maryland College Park, 2020 |
| Arly Macario | BS in Government, Law and Public Policy, May 2018 |
| Amberly Mendes | BS in Biology, May 2018 |
| Sabrina Phanor | BS in Biochemistry, May 2018 |
| Stephanie Preval | BS in Biochemistry, May 2018 |
| Maya Smith | BA in Sociology, Youth and Community, May 2018 |
| Phyliss St-Hubert | BS Government, Law and Public Policy, May 2018 |
| Sydney Thomas | BS in Biochemistry, May 2018 MS in Food Science & Technology, University of California Davis 2022 |
Previous Cohorts’ Doctoral Degrees and Enrollment
| Name | Degrees Completed and In Progress |
|---|---|
| Lindsay Dieudonne | Expected 2027, PhD in Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park |
| Tiffany Martinez | Expected 2025, PhD in Urban Education, City University of New York |
| Stephanie Breen | Expected 2024, PhD in Higher Ed, University of Maryland College Park |
| Sarah Cohen | Expected 2024, PhD in Higher Ed, University of Texas at Austin |
| Briana McDowell | Expected 2022, PhD, Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Knoxville |
| Kevin Ramos | Expected 2022, PhD, Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine - UMass |
| Elizabeth Rodriguez | Expected 2022, PhD, Astrophysics, Texas Christian University |
| Najma Hussein | 2018, Juris Doctor, Suffolk University Law School |
| Richard Haddock | 2018, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, William James College |
| Michel Wladimir | 2017, Juris Doctor, Suffolk University Law School |
| Karol Canals | 2015, Juris Doctor, Suffolk University Law School |
| Tommy Nguyen | 2014, PhD, Computer Science, Rensselaur Polytechnic Institute |
Previous Cohorts’ Master’s Degrees and Enrollment
| Name | Degrees Completed and In Progress |
|---|---|
| Johensky Celestin | In Progress, M.A. Mental Health Counseling, Boston College |
| Monica Prudencio | In Progress, Master of Social Work, Boston College |
| Lella Woolery | In Progress, Master of Social Work, Boston College |
| Ashley Bodden | In Progress, MS Political Science, Suffolk University |
| Claire Burrell Antoine | In Progress, MSW and MPH, Washington University in St. Louis, MO |
| Mei Chen | In Progress, MEd, Early Childhood Education, Lesley University |
| Annie Duong | In Progress, Master’s in Public Administration, Northeastern University |
| Thanh Huynh | In Progress, MS Taxation and Accounting, Suffolk University |
| Nixandra McGuffie | In Progress, MS Marketing Research, Bentley University |
| Elsy Naveo | In Progress, MS Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
| Hakim Cunningham | 2020, MPP, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University |
| Isaac Berko | 2019, Master of Public Administration, George Washington University |
| Stephanie Breen | 2019, MA in Sociology & Education, Teacher’s College, Columbia University |
| Sarah Cohen | 2019, MSEd in Culture, Education, & Society, University of Pennsylvania |
| Tiffany Martinez | 2019, MA in Sociology, Columbia University |
| Ana Maria Mesa | 2018, MSW, Social Work, Boston College |
| Julie Au | 2018, MS Accounting, Suffolk University |
| Henry Mai | 2018, MS in Accounting, Suffolk University |
| Kimberly Berrazueta | 2018, MS in Nursing, Simmons College |
| Roosevelt Lewis | 2018, MS, Nursing, Regis College |
| Roxette Caba | 2018, MA, Speech Language Pathology, UMass - Amherst |
| Socrates Perez | 2018, M Eng, Power Systems Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Karen Hernandez | 2017, MS, Health Informatics, University of Massachusetts - Lowell |
| Cherise Henry | 2017, MA, Counseling Psychology, University of Denver - Colorado |
| Daisy Guzman | 2017, MA, Communication, Southern New Hampshire University |
| Harold Kuemkong-Ngouoko | 2017, MS in Finance, Investments, Suffolk University |
| Yasmeen Hamdoun | 2017, MS in Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Aniela Petani | 2016, MSW, Social Work, Boston University |
| Sandrine Guilherme | 2016, MSW, Social Work, Boston College |
| Brahim Rhazi | 2016, MS, Finance, Suffolk University - Business School |
| Carla Daley | 2016, MBA, Business Administration, Suffolk University - Business School |
| Susana Madrigal | 2016, MA, Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University |
| Laurine Voltaire | 2016, MDiv, Divinity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary |
| Bianca Bellot | 2015, MS, Student Affairs, Colorado State University |
| Taia Thompson | 2015, MS, Crime and Justice Studies, Suffolk University |
| Mary Jaber | 2014, MS, Political Science, Suffolk University |
| Janet Gonzalez | 2014, MA, Pastoral Ministry, Boston College |
| Leslie Steeves | 2014, MA, Film Studies, National University |
| Stephanie Tavarez | 2014, MA, Counseling Psychology, Lesley University |
| Janet Gonzalez | 2014, MA, Counseling Psychology, Boston College |
| Jacqueline Roumanos | 2013, MS, Mental Health Counseling, University at Albany, SUNY |
| Roosevelt Lewis | 2012, MPA, Public Administration, Regis College |
| Tommy Nguyen | 2012, MS Computer Science, Rensselaur Polytechnic Institute |
| Han Pham | 2012, MBA, Business Administration, Anna Maria College |
| Deborah Searfoss | 2012, MA, Latin American Studies, George Washington University |
| Yanitza Medina | 2012, MEd, Administration of Higher Edu, Suffolk University |
| Sharif Butler | 2011, MS, Television Management, Boston University |
| Wanny Baez | 2011, MS, Business Taxation, University of Southern California |
| Janel Hernandez | 2011, MA, Performance Studies, New York University |
| Luis Castillo | 2010, MA, Curriculum & Teaching, Columbia University - Teachers College |