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Emilia Breuning

Emilia Breuning is a student in the Master’s in Marketing Research and Analytics program at MSU’s Broad College of Business. This past summer she graduated from MSU with a bachelor’s in marketing and minors in Spanish, international business, and global studies in social science. On campus, she has been involved with the Literature Association, Spanish Club, and Women’s Leadership Institute. She is interested in consumer behavior and ethical standards of marketing and has experience in communications and data management.

Sakari Wilcox

Sakari Wilcox is a senior studying philosophy and psychology, with a minor in Spanish. She is passionate about continuous learning and growth and striving to live with intentionality. Throughout her time at MSU, she has held various roles with the Tower Guard student organization. In previous years she served as vice president and student advisor, and currently leads a team within the organization that is responsible for the creation of tactile graphics. In her free time, she loves to write, draw, read, practice Spanish, and work on learning Chinese! After graduation, she hopes to pursue a career for which communicating, learning, creating, and fostering self-understanding are central. She is very excited to be joining the Julian Samora Research Institute team!

JSRI Scholarship Recipients

Vivian Morales

Vivian Morales is a graduate of Michigan State University’s Urban & Regional Planning Program. She graduated in three years and has spent her final year as a research assistant under Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Ph.D. Together, they received the Tomlanovich-Dimond Research Grant to research the accessibility of affordable housing for female farmworkers in western Michigan. This past summer, she completed a congressional internship in Washington, D.C., as one of the 30 students selected by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. She is now pursuing a master’s in urban & regional planning at MSU.

Marisol Massó

Marisol Massó is a doctoral candidate in the Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education program in Michigan State University’s College of Education. She is from Mendoza, Argentina. A Latina herself, she is interested in understanding the teaching practice of Latino teachers serving multilingual learners in K-12 classrooms in Michigan. In her dissertation research, she is examining the instruction of culturally relevant texts of a Latino teacher teaching students of Latino heritage in an elementary school in Michigan.

Nancy Hernandez

Nancy Hernandez is a doctoral student in the School Psychology Program at Michigan State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from St. John's University and a master's degree in school psychology from MSU. Her research interests revolve around the benefits of physical activity on executive functioning and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in the Latino child population. Nancy seeks to use the scientific-practitioner model to improve the research-to-practice gap by evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of physical activity as an intervention for Latino children to foster their success.