Alex Castroverde

Alex (she/hers) graduated from Cornell University with a major in Nutritional Sciences and a minor in Music in 2023. She took EDUC 2610 during online instruction and became inspired to become a facilitator in the spring of her sophomore year. For her, CDP became a workshopping playground to help her understand more about her identities and the different paradigms that create the world around her and motivate her to have a role in social justice and strategic change.

Today, Alex is a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the National Cancer Institute, continuing to work on her passion for science and supporting the science community to become a more open space for conversations and inclusion.

Jeannie Yamazaki

Jeannie’s introduction to CDP was in her sophomore year, when she enrolled in EDUC 2610. It was an eye-opening, exciting, and at times, challenging experience – and while she didn’t know it then, it was her introduction to a community and a practice that would go on to shape her understanding of the world and herself in it. Jeannie facilitated for the rest of her time at Cornell, and following graduation in 2021 with a B.S. in Environment and Sustainability, has continued to stay involved with CDP.Jeannie’s professional path has centered human connection in individual and systemic change. She worked in early childhood education in Japan, then in higher education in California, and is now pursuing her PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany. She is happy and grateful to be back in her home state, doing something she finds fulfilling while living closer to her family and friends.

Kartik Ramkumar

Kyle Muña

Nelson Liu