Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

D Y S O N Y E A R I N R E V I E W 2 0 2 3 – 2 0 2 4 8 Inside Dyson Louisa Moquete Bautista '24 Mathematics (PLV) Louisa Moquete Bautista is a first-generation college student whose academic and volunteer endeavors demonstrate a profound commitment to both data science and community service. She has contributed to several pivotal projects at Pace, including Blue CoLab, a team-based research and training program in real-time water monitoring technologies and data interpretation for the development of public information and ale systems regarding water quality. Alongside five other students, they formed Right-to-Know H2O, which is based on the principle that the human right to clean water requires a corresponding human right to know if water is clean. As head of the education commi ee at the National Dominican Women's Caucus, Bautista launched tech education programs aimed at empowering high school students in New York and exposing them to tech. S. Brian Jones, MA, Assistant Dean of Diversity and Equity in the A s and Program Director, Writing for Diversity and Equity in Theater and Media S. Brian Jones has had a long-standing commitment and passion for community service since high school, when he served on commi ees and fed the unhoused every Sunday. In college, he received the Dr. Rose E. Butler Browne award for his work with the then-South Side Clubhouse. A er college, he began his career in professional theater with a focus on programs which elevated disadvantaged groups and dismantled false narratives. At Pace since 2021, he has continued his commitment to service, pa icipating in the annual LEAP ARTS NYC National Read, presenting at the CUNY School of Professional Studies Racial Justice Weekend, and serving as an adjudicator for the Connecticut Drama Association for high school students. Mikayla Meachem '24, Peace and Justice Studies and Women's and Gender Studies (NYC) Mikayla Meachem applies her commitment to human rights and sexual and reproductive justice in all walks of life, including her role at SisterLove, Inc., the oldest women-centered HIV and sexual and reproductive justice advocacy organization in Atlanta and the Southeast. With this knowledge, she has spoken on a reproductive justice panel at the university, alongside her mentors from the Peace and Justice and Women's and Gender Studies depa ments, discussing Black feminist leadership, reproductive justice, and restrictive abo ion bans and their impact on marginalized communities. She assisted the Center for Community Action and Research in creating an inclusive reading list and ways to suppo the reproductive justice movement. Bronze Medal Jefferson Award In October, Peace and Justice Studies and Political Science students Ellis Clay '25, Antje Hipkins '24, and Jasmine Cintrón Soto '25 delivered statements to the United Nations General Assembly First Commi ee, a forum focused on global disarmament and international security. Clay, Hipkins, and Cintrón Soto are interns at Dyson College's International Disarmament Institute and, under the advisement of Professor Ma hew Bolton, PhD, and Associate Professor Emily Welty, PhD, engage directly with the UN General Assembly First Commi ee and with civil society organizations. Clay's statement was dra ed by students in Bolton's Global Politics of Disarmament and Arms Control course. Through consultation with 70 civil society organizations and coalitions around the world, including two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Abdulla Al Suwaidi '25, Finance (Lubin); Elena Bater '25, Peace and Justice Studies; Victoria Klioutchnikov '25, Global Marketing Management (Lubin); Ke Luo (Luke) '24, Political Science; Gianna Ma eo '26, A s and Ente ainment Management (Lubin); Chandler Murphy '24, Political Science; and Daniel Welden '26, Political Science, helped prepare the testimony, which centered around youth inclusion and disarmament education. Hipkins, whose internship placement was with Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, delivered a statement focused on gender, intersectionality, and disarmament that was co-signed by 17 civil society organizations. Cintrón Soto's statement focused on the "use [of] cyberspace for peaceful purposes." Speaking with endorsements from ICT4Peace and eight other organizations, she emphasized, "The Internet and connected devices are being weaponized in ways that negatively impact on human rights, such as through surveillance, hacking, censorship, and intentional disruption of internet services and access." Dyson Students Take the Stage to Speak at the United Nations

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