PBK Fellowships

2025-2026 Fellows

Kayla Chang, 2025-2026 PBK Fellow

Kayla is a senior majoring in Neurobiology with a certificate in Art History. She currently works as an EMT and is planning to attend medical school following graduation and a gap year.

Kayla Chang, a women with long brown hair, smiling in front of a building.

Rayane Prado Nunes, 2025-2026 PBK Fellow

Rayane is a senior majoring in Psychology and Gender & Women studies with certificates in Dance and Leadership. She is a First Wave scholar and has been conducting research on-campus for 4 years. She plans to continue her research in graduate school.

Rayane Prado Nunes, a woman with dark, long hair and wearing a sleeveless black shirt with a silver necklace. Rayane is smiling in front of numerous trees blossoming with white florals.

Ronan Piontek, 2025-2026 PBK Fellow

Ronan is a senior majoring in Political Science and Spanish with a certificate in Chicane and Latine Studies. He is currently President of the Political Science Student Association and a longtime team leader with Badger Volunteers.

Ronan Piontek, a blonde male wearing a white and blue button up shirt, smiling in front of a stone building.

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2024-2025 Fellows

Amitabha Shatdal

Anna Rifkin

Kristen Jenkins

2023-2024 Fellows

Ria Dhingra

Cayden Kirkpatrick

2022-2023 Fellows

Ava Copple

Kevin Fan

Thekla Ketcher

2021-2022 Fellows

Samantha Sharpe

Xi (Chelsea) Chen

Allison Hesselberg

2020-2021 Fellows

Elizabeth Neary

Jessica Kuzniewski

Jinan Sous

Xiyu Yang

2019-2020 Fellows

Elizabeth Neary

Laura Bunn

Amanda Janquart

Lily Oberstein

2018-2019 Fellows

Jamie Dawson

Laura Bunn

Madeline Koehn

Claire Vanden Heuvel

2017-2018 Fellows

Sam Alhadeff

Jamie Dawson

Michael Hermsen

Luke Valmadrid

2016-2017 Fellows

Allison Hare

Justin Laridaen

Current Fellow Contact

Fellow Email
Kayla Chang krchang3@wisc.edu
Rayane Prado Nunes pradonunes@wisc.edu
Ronan Piontek rpiontek2@wisc.edu