Alanis is a fourth year student at Gallatin where she studies power, identity and Black feminist ideology, with a minor in Web Programming and Applications. She is a New York native of Caribbean descent who will be studying in Accra, Ghana in Fall of 2019, where she hopes to gain an enriched experience that will not only aid her in her ongoing learning of how identity affects social navigations, but in her life as well.

She has long held a penchant for social justice issues and community building within student life as a student leader, serving in a diverse array of roles that have challenged her thinking and exposed her to the variegated landscape of people and spaces that NYU and NYC has to offer.  As a global equity fellow, she firstly hopes to learn from her peers while examining and furthering what the tenets of inclusion and diversity mean at a globally serving institution like NYU, as well as what possibilities lie in store for its surrounding enclaves to play leading roles in its diverse future.  She is looking forward to an insightful term of unfettered scholarship and conscious engagement.