2025 Spring Fellow

Sophia Donald

Sophia Donald is a student at Santa Margarita Catholic High School with a deep passion for helping others and creating meaningful change in her community. She is the founder of Lemons to Lemonade, a nonprofit organization that supports grieving children through camps, events, and peer-led resources. Inspired by her own experience with loss, Sophia wrote a grief workbook to help kids like her navigate the healing process. She is also a nationally recognized equestrian and an advocate for youth mental health.

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Youth Bereavement Support in Public Schools

Capstone Project

This policy brief argues that the lack of grief support in public schools is a widespread, urgent issue impacting millions of children, and outlines bipartisan, cost-effective policy solutions to ensure equitable access to bereavement resources nationwide

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Pathways or Pitfalls? The Policy Crisis of Undocumented Labor Participation

Social Policy

August 21, 2025

This brief will explain the main pathways for immigrants that do not have citizenship to obtain work. It will also address the current stakes and stakeholders, as well as why it is a pressing issue in this day.

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