Alex Berryhill is a senior at UC Berkeley studying Political Economy and Public Policy. For the last year she's worked with the Blum Center for Developing Economies' #GlobalPOV project, promoting critical discussion on poverty and inequality. She's currently an editor at The Daily Californian, and a research apprentice at the Center on the Politics of Development. She's worked on women's policy research in Washington D.C., as well as conducted field research in Nicaragua on youth participation in development and city planning.