Executive Board
President
Stephannie Chen '19
Stephannie is a Junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, minoring in Economics and Business. Prior to serving as President, Stephannie was a policy analyst in the Education policy center and served as Programming Director and interim Senior Policy Chairman. Outside of Roosevelt, she conducts research on teacher attraction in public schools and volunteers at Fall Creek Elementary School. Contact her at [email protected].
Senior Policy Chairman
Emmy Chen '20
Emmy Chen is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Government and minoring in Inequality Studies, Public Policy, and Information Science. Her main areas of interest are human and civil rights, specifically in studying gender-based violence and discrimination, as well as how social institutions and processes exacerbate inequities in outcome. She is pursuing a career in human rights law and public policy after graduation. Emmy has previously conducted research on childhood sexual assault disclosure and the rape-kit testing backlog. She has also led double project research teams analyzing the US think tank and policy landscape with the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. At Cornell, she is also a board member of the university’s chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta pre-law organization, a Cayuga's Watcher, and a member of Consent Ed. Contact her at [email protected].
Vice President
Aaron Gottesfeld '19
Aaron is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations from New York City. Before serving as Vice President, Aaron spent a year as Communications Director. Aaron is also involved around the Cornell campus as a member of the Tamid Group, a finance and consulting club that works with Israeli startups. If you need to contact Aaron you can find him at Lynah Rink when the men's hockey team is playing, or email him at [email protected].
Programming Director
Nikhil Dhingra '20
Nikhil is a sophomore in the ILR School. He is a member of the Rawlings Presidential Scholars program, using grant money to conduct research on sanctuary city policies with Professor Shannon Gleeson within ILR. Outside of the classroom, Nikhil serves as the Committee Co-Chair for the Community Service Committee within ILR Student Government, writes for the Cornell Business Review, and is an active brother of Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity. In his free time, Nikhil enjoys to read and play basketball. You can reach Nikhil at [email protected].
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Advocacy Director
Liel Sterling '21
Liel is a freshman in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Cornell Meinig Family National Scholar. She is interested in politics and hopes to pursue a career in government. Apart from serving as the Roosevelt Institute's Advocacy Chair, Liel is involved with the Cornell International Affairs Review, the Cornell Public Service Center, and the Tompkins County League of Women's Voters. Contact her at [email protected].
Communications Director
Samara Jacobson '20
Samara is a sophomore majoring in Industrial and Labor Relations with minors in Information Science and Business. Outside of Roosevelt, Samara is an editor at Ezra’s Archives and House Manager of her social sorority. She also conducts research on the use of mediation and arbitration to resolve workplace conflict. Last summer, Samara studied abroad in Beijing, China to gain a special knowledge of Chinese labor issues. Email her at [email protected].
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Center Directors
Center for Education Policy
Emil Kunkin '19
Emil is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Economics and Government, with minors in Philosophy and Business. He is interested in education policy, the role of charter schools, and financial incentives shaping higher education. He has interned with the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank, and with a lobbying firm. On campus, he is the treasurer and philanthropy chair of his social fraternity, and he enjoys being consistently disappointed by Philadelphia sports.
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Center for Economic Policy and Development
Shivani Sanghani '20
Shivani is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences majoring in Economics with minors in Statistics and Crime, Prisons, Education & Justice. She hopes to attend law school in the future and pursue a career in civil rights or public interest law. In addition to Roosevelt, Shivani is also a news writer for The Cornell Daily Sun and a member of The Cornell Engineering World Health project team.
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Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Ahyoung Kim-Lee '21 and Jenny Xie '20
Ahyoung Kim-Lee is a junior from Bethesda, MD, majoring in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences with a minor in Applied Economics. Since fall 2016 she has worked two semesters as a policy analyst and one semester as a senior analyst for Roosevelt Institute's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. Ahyoung is excited to examine the intersections between business, policy, and environmental management. She spent the summer of 2017 in Washington, D.C., conducting research as an intern for the World Wildlife Fund's U.S. Governmental Relations Department. She also worked as a Roosevelt Fellow, building support for her policy idea to clean up the city's watershed. Ahyoung is looking forward to being back in the D.C. area this summer while working as a research analyst for CEB, Now Gartner.
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Jenny is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in English and minorning in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences. She is particularly interested in environmental justice and renewable energy policy, the latter of which she explored during her internship with electric grid/market operator PJM Interconnection. In addition to Roosevelt, she is involved with Cornell International Affairs Review as VP of Programming, the Student Assembly Environmental Committee, Climate Justice Cornell, and the Policy Debate Team.
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Center for Healthcare Policy
Victoria Alandy '20
Victoria "Tori" Alandy is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology, studying Policy Analysis and Management with a minor in Business. Her interests lie primarily in domestic health policy, but she is also interested in education policy, immigration policy, and financial regulation. Last summer, she interned at FWD.us, an immigration reform lobbying group. Outside of Roosevelt, which she joined in the fall of 2017, she serves as the VP of Talent Management for AIESEC Cornell and Cultural Chair for the Cornell Filipino Association. After graduation, she hopes to work in either political consulting or in government affairs.
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Center for Domestic Policy
Henry Kanengeiser '18
Henry is a senior Government major, with minors in Law & Society, Public Policy, and Science & Technology Studies. On campus, he writes for the Cornell Daily Sun and the Cornell Roosevelt Institute. He is currently writing an honors thesis on the relationship between partisan gerrymandering and depressed voter turnout. He hopes to pursue a career in public policy research, political advocacy, or law. Contact him at [email protected]
Center for Foreign Policy and International Studies
Chris Cho '18 and Jack Mindich '21
Christopher is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is majoring in Government, and pursuing minors in Business and Law & Society. He has been a member of the Roosevelt Institute since 2014, and is also involved in Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society; the Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity; and the Cornell International Affairs Review. He intends to apply to law school after graduating from Cornell.
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Jack Carlos Mindich is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences planning to major in Government. He is especially focused on American foreign policy in the Middle East and the American judicial system. This is his second semester with Roosevelt and his first as Center Director. In addition to heading the Foreign PolicyCenter for Roosevelt, he is an analyst and editor for the Cornell International Affairs Review and has worked for the Center for Court Innovation, a criminal justice nonprofit in New York City, for the past two summers.
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