Angela Leocata graduated in 2018 summa cum laude in Anthropology with a secondary in Global Health and Healthy Policy. She is driven by questions of subjectivity, suffering, and care as they are experienced in daily life. For her Hanzich fellowship, she interned with Sangath, a mental health research institute in Goa, India, on a program focused on mothers with maternal depression. She continued to participate with this organization for nine months, accumulating into her thesis project: “Reconsidering Care: ...

Annika has worked for the past eight years in her neighborhood of Dorchester, MA through advocacy groups, farmers markets, and civic associations to address neighborhood health concerns, with a particular focus on diet and nutrition. Through the generous support of the Joey Hanzich Memorial Fellowship, Annika spent the summer of 2014 conducting ethnographic research for her Social Studies thesis on food access, consumption, and purchasing habits in the Codman Square area of Dorchester. Her research sparked a particular interest in healthy food access and affordability. Annika now works...

Kathy Ku is a 2013-14 graduate who is currently living in Uganda. With the help of the Joey Hanzich Memorial Fellowship, Kathy was able to work with SPOUTS of Water, a ceramic water filter production center in Uganda. Moving beyond traditional means of production and distribution, Kathy was able to focus on partnerships with schools and local governments and NGOs so that the filters could be easily accessible in public places. Since her fellowship, Kathy has graduated and is working in Uganda full-...