Economically Disadvantaged Students Facing Chronic Absenteeism

This project explores the US, facing a significant challenge: chronic absenteeism. This issue disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged students, preventing them from accessing quality education, achieving stability, and meeting graduation requirements, widening disparities with their privileged peers.

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Inquiry-driven, this project may reflect personal views, aiming to enrich problem-related discourse.

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Protecting Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in the Middle East

Capstones Fall 2025

The backbone of the luxurious buildings like the Burj Khalifa in the UAE, the tallest building in the world, has been built on the sweat and, tragically, the lives of migrant workers. Behind the shining glass towers and record-breaking skylines lies a human cost that rarely makes headlines. This policy brief exposes how the kafala sponsorship system traps millions of migrant laborers across the Middle East in cycles of abuse and danger. Despite government claims of reform, weak enforcement and systematic indifference continue to exploit the laborers. The brief calls for urgent regional cooperation, stronger labor enforcement, and the abolition of worker-paid recruitment fees to end this silent exploitation.

Healthcare equity and inequity amongst BIPOC and immigrants in Sweden, Pakistan and the United States

Capstones - Winter 2023

Alayna Hassan

This paper will dicuss the said topic and will provide some proposals that can improve health inequity.

Education or Incarceration? How School Discipline Fuels the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Capstones Spring 2025

This brief examines the school-to-prison pipeline, where exclusionary discipline practices disproportionately affect marginalized students and increase their risk of incarceration.

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Other Fellowship Capstones

Protecting Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in the Middle East

Healthcare equity and inequity amongst BIPOC and immigrants in Sweden, Pakistan and the United States

Education or Incarceration? How School Discipline Fuels the School-to-Prison Pipeline