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Member Spotlight: Samantha Chapa, University of Houston

Political Science Now

Samantha’s dissertation focuses on the impacts of urban immigrant inclusion policies on the participation and civic engagement of immigrant and minoritized communities. Welcoming policies and city-level advocacy like this are the focus of my current research agenda. Other current projects also stem from my work at BakerRipley.

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

The Hechinger Report

That was a real civics lesson she will never forget. The decisions that affect the land that we live on are made behind closed doors,” Watford told Essence magazine. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It

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