Scott Kraff
Scott Kraff graduated from UF in 2013 with a BA in History and focus on Latin America and Political Science. He worked at SPOHP for a year as a staff member from 2012-2013, after working for a semester as an intern. Scott transcribed and processed oral histories for the Poarch Creek Project, and coordinated social media for the African American History Project.
Scott is currently attending Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. studying labor law and working with labor unions in D.C.
Sebastian X. Muñoz-Medina
Sebastian X. Muñoz-Medina worked at SPOHP from 2011-2013, working on a research project with the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program. Through SPOHP, Sebastian worked on the production of the documentary film “Siempre Adelante: A Look at Faith and the Immigrant Struggle.” Sebastian’s research through the McNair program focused on drag king performances in the local troupe, Studs Are In, LLC. Sebastian presented the final research products, A Look at Gender (Oddities) through Drag King Performances in North Central Florida and Studs Are In: An Introspective, in several conferences, including the National Queer People of Color Conference in 2012 and the seventh annual Florida Society of the Social Sciences.
Sebastian graduated from the Student Personnel in Higher Education Graduate Program at the University of Florida (UF), obtaining a Master’s in Education in May 2014. Sebastian holds a BA in Women’s Studies and Gender Research with a minor concentration in Family, Youth, and Community Sciences. Currently, Sebastian X. Muñoz-Medina is the Gender and Sexual Diversity Education and Program Coordinator for the Center for Gender and Student Engagement at Dartmouth College.
Isht Vatsa
Isht Vatsa graduated from UF in 2013, with BAs in History and Criminology and a minor in Business Administration. He worked at SPOHP for two years, for a semester as an intern in 2011, and as a staff member from 2012-2013, transcribing, conducting oral histories, and developing podcasts. At SPOHP, Isht worked on the Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) partnership to conduct and transcribe interviews. He also worked with Poarch Creek Project, Coalition for Immokalee Workers, and African American History Project. Isht coordinated twenty interviews with SAF alumni for the organization’s twentieth anniversary commemorations, contributing to the anniversary pamphlet (PDF). Isht currently attends Boston College Law School in Massachusetts.
Kapri Crowley
Kapri Crowley graduated from UF in 2013, with BAs in Anthropology and History. She worked at SPOHP as a digital apprentice under archivist and technology coordinator Deborah Hendrix from 2012-2013.
Kapri is pursuing an MA in American Studies at Purdue University, where she is completing a degree in American Studies with a focus on Curriculum and Instruction. She was elected to the committee for the 49th Annual American Studies Graduate Symposium (PDF), to take place April 17-18, 2014, working on the theme of American exceptionalism.
Ross Larkin
Ross Larkin worked as a graduate coordinator at SPOHP through 2013, teaching the intern class and managing transcribing workflow as an M.A. student. Ross graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2004. He received a BA from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada in 2008, and passed the New York Bar Exam in 2012 after graduating from Hofstra University School of Law,
Ross currently lives in Montreal and works as the Corporate Online Sales Strategist for Jam Industries, Canada’s largest distributor of musical instruments and electronics.
Monica Blair
Monica Blair graduated from UF in 2013 with a BA in History and a minor in Anthropology. She interned at SPOHP for one year, conducting and transcribing interviews and creating podcasts. Her senior thesis, “With All Deliberate Delay: School Desegregation in Alachua County, Florida, 1954-1971,” incorporated several SPOHP interviews.
Monica is currently pursuing a MA in American History at the University of Georgia, where she continues to utilize the oral history skills she gained at SPOHP to further her research on school integration and segregation academies in the South.
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