Hannah Drexler
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Hannah is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying English and Political Rhetoric in the College Scholar program. On campus, she is a policy analyst for the Cornell Roosevelt Institute, the co-editor of the fiction section of Cornell's Rainy Day literary magazine, and a research assistant in Dr. Stephen Ceci's Child Witness and Cognition Lab. She has also conducted research within the English Department on pre-Franklin printing and early dictionaries of Native American languages. This past summer, Hannah was a research intern at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, where she researched political disaffection and polarization in Ecuadorian politics. Previously, she has interned with the Western New York Law Center as a Cornell High Road Fellow and the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, and she has also worked for a number of Pennsylvania political campaigns. Hannah is passionate about educational inequality, the importance of legal aid work, and justice system reform. When she has any spare time, she enjoys racing through the New York Times Daily Mini, embroidering sweatshirts, and debating the potentiality of Vonnegut's ice-nine.