RadicalxChange Student Chapters

Why do students and researchers believe in RadicalxChange? How do RadicalxChange student chapters operate? This session will provide insight behind the scenes of RadicalxChange chapters in universities. The panel is a diverse group of students who all have multiple touch points with RadicalxChange. They will discuss their personal experiences and perspectives on RadicalxChange as well as what they hope for its future.

SPEAKERS Russell Cui is a PhD student in political science at University of Rochester. His research interests include cooperation theory, international political economy (especially China and globalization) and the epistemic aspects of quadratic voting. He is interested in applying RxC concepts in the field of international organization and decentralized media platforms. Russell started and is currently running the RadicalxChange Rochester Chapter (Twitter: @rxcrochester). He is also a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at Mercatus Center.

Vinicius Dias is lawyer and researcher involved with the RadicalxChange Brazil Chapter. He holds an LL.M. in Civil Law Studies at the University of São Paulo - FDRP / USP. Selected during Undergraduate Law Studies by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) for the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) to support the development of human capital and the next generation of leaders in Latin America. He is member of the Radical Market research Group from FDRP/USP led by Professor Juliana Domingues . Member of the Commission of Civil Law-OAB/RP/SP (Ribeirão Preto Bar Association) and member of RadicalxChange Brazil Chapter.

Jake Interrante is an MPP candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He is a founding member of UChicago RadicalxChange and is Editor in Chief of the Chicago Policy Review. Previously, Jake worked in the community development sector. As a program associate with Massachusetts Housing Partnership’s ONE Mortgage Program, he helped working class households buy homes in otherwise unaffordable parts of the State. Prior to that, he helped finance amenities in economically disadvantaged communities as Development Coordinator for Partners for the Common Good, a DC-based CDFI Loan Fund. His published work on comparative borrower outcomes in the ONE Mortgage program and FHA Mortgage Program has appeared in the March 2020 edition of Cityscape.

Esme Piechoczek is a Masters student at the University of Sussex, studying Sustainable Development with SPRU (The Science Policy Research Unit). Her interest in development issues has led her to volunteer and work on several grassroots projects both at home and around the world related to climate change and gender equality. During the course of her current studies she has developed particular interests in infrastructures (digital, social and physical), their adaptation for sustainability goals, and how to transform decision making processes to better reflect the interests of wider society. Currently she is facilitating research on the impacts of digitalisation within social services.