I am an alumna of the 2021-22 Columbia Laidlaw Scholars cohort, and graduated from Columbia (CC'24) with majors in History and Mathematics. My Laidlaw research centered on the women's movement in early twentieth-century British India. My first summer focused on the Indian writer, educator, and activist Mahadevi Varma, and my second summer focused on networks of women from across the British empire attending the Oxford in the 1910s-30s at the Unstable Archives Project.
Looking for opportunities that will help me grow as a professional, intellectual, and individual. I am invested in Public Global Health and issues around capacity and policy building in Low and Middle Income Countries.
Holly Shorey
Human rights defender focusing on children's rights, and undergraduate researcher, Amnesty UK Children's Human Rights Network
I am a human rights defender focusing on children's rights. I am the vice chair and empowerment and involvement officer of the Amnesty UK Children's Human Rights Network. The network is a dynamic, and change-making group of activists who campaign with children to make their rights real.
My research this summer has focused on understanding how certain linguistic structures are used by organisations, movements, and individual activists to take action on human rights issues.
I am a First Year in Columbia College interested in majoring in either History or Anthropology—my interests are pretty much exactly in between the two. I am interested in combining my two fields of interest while looking at the legacy of notorious urban planner Robert Moses and his counterpart Jane Jacobs. I am interested no in what Moses built, but looking at myth created around him, and in particular the debates created between him and Jacobs. Through this research, I wants to reexamine how this debate was constructed and how it informs modern day planning discussion.
I am originally from Santa Barbara, California, and I am a rising senior at Columbia College. I am majoring in Economics-Mathematics. As an aspiring research economist, I am broadly interested in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on assessing the efficacy of policy. Outside of academics, I am an enthusiastic pianist and fan of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. In my first research summer, I studied the link between the COVID-19 Pandemic and the US Energy Market. I built an economic model of the Energy Market and seeing how an energy firm would respond to an exogenous shock to energy demand. In my second research summer, I worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on a number of research projects broadly related to international finance, the global consequences of monetary policy, and how capital moves across borders.
I'm a graduate of Columbia University ('23!), where I studied Film. I used to work at Google as a growth strategist, and at YouTube as a content strategist.
My current work centers on multimedia and multidisciplinary art, blending media experiments, writing, and ongoing film projects.
During the Laidlaw Fellowship, I examined Napoleon's influence on the political attitudes present in Le rouge et le noir by Stendhal and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. The following year, I worked in business development for Tortoise Media, a news publication based out of London.
Feel free to reach out and connect!