Students & Fellows
AFFILIATED STUDENTS
![Brad Stephens Katie Hanton](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_526342954.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Research Interests:
- Trust
- Racialization of Space
- Nonprofit Management and Leadership
- Municipal/Local Government
- Equitable Community Development
- Social Science Education
![Marcel Worphy Pambo Joong Won Kim](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_1870784872.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Research Interests:
- Political Accountability
- Regional collective security in West Africa
- Community Change
![Laura Nelson](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Research Interests:
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Urban Governance, Water Governance
- Urban and Regional Planning
- Urban Development and Social Change
- Improving urban data literacy and quality
![Aparajita Sengupta](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_885754015.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Research Interests:
- Counseling
- Mental Health and Wellness
- Veterans
- Older Adults
- Substance Use and Addiction
![Amin Farzaneh](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_831833544.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Research Interests:
- Urban Regeneration
- Community Development and Social Change
- Ethnic Inequalities and Urban Policy
- Placemaking
- Marginalization
- Tourism and Art
![Quinn Richards](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_1374270079.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Research Interests:
- Biomedical Ethics in Animal Research
- Equine Reproduction and Health
- Human-Animal Bonds
- Immunology
- LGBTQ+ Equality
- Harm Reduction
SENIOR FELLOWS
![Andy Morikawa](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_1076766169.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
ANDY MORIKAWA, Executive Director Emeritus of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley (Virginia)
![Bob Leonard](/content/ipg_vt_edu/en/OurPeople/StudentsFellows/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_191098339.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
BOB LEONARD, Professor, School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech
AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS
Katy Powell, Director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies and Professor of English, Virginia Tech
Marcy Schnitzer, Assistant Provost for Diversity and Strategic Planning, Virginia Tech
Nancy White, Principal, One Robin, LLI