Contributors

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Brooklyn Arroyo

Brooklyn Arroyo is a freshman undergraduate at Johns Hopkins in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The current work and passion of Arroyo is to create spaces of intersectional and multifaceted science that works alongside policy. This entails statistical analysis of things like demographics, and developing focus groups, to point out systemic faults within a laboratory setting. Outside of the lab, and academia, Arroyo is passionate about being a biracial Latina, working in community service, and the constant pursuit of experiencing something new. Pushing herself to explore fields in legislation, law enforcement, public service, medicine, and laboratory work. 

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Lois Dankwa

Lois Dankwa is a PhD candidate in the Health Services Research and Policy track in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include cross-sector collaboration and care management in underserved communities for individuals with high medical needs and complex social challenges. Her work explores teamwork and collaborative decision-making related to health behavior, organizational structure and development, and strategic management.

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Megan Benay

Megan Benay is a current doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Senior Fellow at InnovateEDU where she provides operational and thought leadership for projects, supporting organizational leaders with strategic innovations. Previously, Megan served as the Senior National Director of Data & Research at the Great Oaks Foundation. In this role, Megan led the work to build data and research systems to drive continuous improvement efforts across the organization. She also led initiatives to support schools across the GO network to improve social, emotional, and academic outcomes for students with diverse learning needs as the Director of Inclusive Education. Megan has served in many positions in education throughout her career, including as a Program Analyst at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, as a special education teacher in New York City public schools, and as an English teacher in Chile as part of the United Nations Development Programme.

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Michael Wilkinson

Michael is a 4th year PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering in the LIMBS lab. His work involves applying control theory and system identification techniques to modeling sensorimotor control in animal systems. Outside the lab, Michael is involved in student organizations that focus on improving the graduate student experience. He is the Co-Chair of the Graduate Representative Organization (GRO), which is the largest (2000 students) graduate student organization at the JHU Homewood Campus, the Treasurer for the LCSR Graduation Student Association, (LCSRGSA), the Union Chair for the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association (MEGA), and a senior member of Teachers and Researchers United (TRU) which is striving to create a union for graduate workers as Hopkins.