Liana just finished her 3rd year as a PhD student in the Geography Department where she studies New Jersey labor politics and the environmental landscape of the warehousing industry. She is active in the Rutgers grad and faculty union and is part of the prison abolition movement in New Jersey. She has a master’s degree in urban planning from UCLA. Her current side project is learning how to grow vegetables in her tiny Brooklyn apartment.
Liana’s Mentoring Project
In this mentoring project, we will explore how to make change in our immediate community, Rutgers New Brunswick, using qualitative social science and other research methods. We will investigate commonalities and differences in our university experiences, discuss the ethics of conducting research in our own community as well as practical research design and organizing strategies. If participants would like, we can also delve into how to turn research project ideas into successful graduate school applications and the general process of applying to grad programs.