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Students

Iesha Ramos
Iesha is a fourth year at Hampshire College studying Public Health/Women's Health/Reproductive Rights. She is from Holyoke, MA. Iesha is a Teen Pregnancy prevention trainer at Gandara Center and serves on the board of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Mass. In the summer of 2011, Iesha was a RRASC at Parkmed. Her plans for after Hampshire College are to apply to graduate school and become a Nurse Practitioner.
Lauren Casey

Lauren Casey is a fourth year/Division III student at Hampshire College. After studying women’s health from a reproductive justice perspective for the last three years or so, Lauren hopes to concentrate on a more justice-centered project for her Division III, looking at how women are situated within the prison industrial complex. After working closely with CLPP for the past two years, she is super pumped to return as a Student Group Co-Coordinator this year, and work alongside Zaynah Shaikh and the rest of the student group. Lauren hopes to pursue a degree in law after Hampshire and hopefully return to work with a group like CLPP in the future. Lauren is happiest when hanging out with her super cool mom and sister. Lauren also really enjoys coffee, Ratatat and wearing boots.

Sara Berk
Sara Berk is a Division III student at Hampshire College studying ornithology and behavioral physiology. She has traveled many places to study birds, including Canada and Venezuela and soon, Costa Rica! She spent Summer 2012 in Tofield, a small town in Alberta, Canada completing her Division III fieldwork without running water and only a bike for transportation. Sara has worked at CLPP since her first year at Hampshire, and loves every minute spent in the office. She also enjoys the outdoors, animals, and visiting new places.
Valentina Forte-Hernandez
Valentina Forte-Hernandez is a Division I student at Hampshire College and she is extremely excited to begin working with CLPP. She plans on studying film in college and is the founder of the independent film company Bear Valley Films. In addition to film making she enjoys writing and acting. She is thrilled to begin her first year at college and her first year with CLPP.
Zaynah Shaikh
Zaynah is a third-year student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her primary major is in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, but she is also majoring in Philosophy with a minor in English. Her interests include snow, exploring, trying to make things out of wood, and drinking tea. She hopes to be a community organizer of some sort when she grows up. This last summer, Zaynah was a RRASC intern at National Priorities Project and helped to plan and design three training conferences about the federal budget and its influence at the local level, across the United States. Zaynah is excited to be back at CLPP once again to help organize the 2013 CLPP conference and other awesome RJ and SJ oriented events with Co-Student Group Coordinator, Lauren and the CLPP student group!