MALS Winter Social 2025: A Night of Insight and Connection

Student Panel Highlights

Five students from the MALS program shared their insights about their experiences, including their areas of concentration and details about their theses:

• Emma Davies – Communications and Genetic Engineering: Communicating Genetically Modified Organisms: Perspectives from Ghanaian Scientists
• Michele Lynn – Communications and Social Justice: Leveraging Communication to Support The Black Child National Agenda
• Angela Kontometros – Social Inequality and Conformity to Social Norms: Transnational Asian Adoptee Women and Conformity to Racial Norms
• Shannon Jenkins – Human Systems and Flows: Cultural Topology in U.S. Immigration: Homophily and Homotopies
• Jordan Birkner – Behavioral Health: Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Psychological Heuristic Formation

Alumna Speaker

Lani St. Hill, a May 2024 MALS graduate in Climate Justice, presented her project, Everyday Environmentalism: Fostering Climate Justice in Higher Education, emphasizing sustainability efforts in academia.