Adia Clarke is a Summer Fellow for the Reclaim Project’s Social Media Team. She is originally from Brooklyn, New York and is currently a Senior at The University of Southern California. Adia is receiving her BA in Cinema & Media Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts and has a specific interest in Documentary Filmmaking. Previous to her work with the Reclaim Project, Adia completed an internship in Fall 2022 with the White House Digital Strategy Video Team, supporting in managing the President’s online communications across social media, digital creators, and creative production. Adia is passionate about content creation and has created content for Samsung, Gyrl Wonder, and Promise Scholars. She is currently working with USC Athletics as a Video Intern. 

Alex Hack is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. Having previously attended Parsons School of Design, she has a background in communication and UI design, and much of her research examines digital media, the invisible, and matters of minoritized experience and embodiment that remain unreal and undervalued. Her dissertation project takes up medicine and its software as fertile ground for humanistic analysis as they force us to consider that racial harm lies too in supposed benevolence, that it has become elemental and rhizomatic, and that its killer instinct doesn’t simply resolve with more training or better data. Considering this, she aims to investigate how the logics of chattel slavery remain present in American healthcare and to counteract its specificity via the incorporation of wisdom that has long been judged unscientific. Her work can be seen in Spectator and Docalogue.

Devin Glenn is a second year MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. His research interests surround liveness, aura, and nonspace within the realm of social media production and consumption, as well as how remote access to contemporary events creates spatial and temporal rifts which reorient the viewer in their understanding of the self within a larger, ever-shifting imagined community. Previous to his work with the Reclaim Project, Devin completed funded research into K-pop activism on TikTok under Dr. Marc Yamada at Brigham Young University. He has presented academic papers at the UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Undergraduate Research Symposium (2022), the BYU Humanities Symposium (2022), and the Northwestern University Backward Glances Conference (2022).

Duncan Law is a dual-degree student in the fourth year of the BA in Political Science program and the first year of the Master of Public Policy program at the University of Southern California. He is originally from Council Bluffs, Iowa, and his policy interests include climate, transit, housing, and more. Duncan’s previous experience has involved lots of volunteering and unpaid internships for various advocacy organizations, issue campaigns, and political campaigns. He will serve as the Communications Director for the USC Political Union this coming school year.

Eneos Çarka is a PhD student and Annenberg Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the Head of Documentary Programming at the Academy Award Qualifying Tirana International Film Festival where, in addition to curating, he organizes events, masterclasses, workshops, and panels with filmmakers and industry. He was awarded an MA in Film Studies with Distinction from University College London and he graduated with Magna Cum laude from DocNomads Masters on Creative Documentary. His films have screened at numerous festivals, galleries, and cultural events such as IDFA, FIPADOC where he received Tënk Award, HotDocs, Thessaloniki, GoShort, Musée du Louvre and more. He served as a Jury Member in the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary in 2022.

Kyle Ching is a Summer Scholar for the Reclaim Project’s Scholarly Research Team. He is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii and is currently a sophomore at the University of Southern California. Kyle is studying public policy with a specific interest in social media regulation, tax law, and affordable housing proposals. Kyle’s professional experience includes serving as a development intern for the Urban Land Institute and a legislative intern for Hawaii State Senator Stanley Chang. He is also passionate about mental health and APIDA-related issues, and is currently serving as the Mental Health Center Assistant for USC’s Asian Pacific American Student Services.

Xavier Wisniewski is a second year BA student studying Political Science at the University of Southern California.  His research interests surround political theory and strategy.  He has a particular interest in the concept of the Alt-Right pipeline and its detrimental effects on society, as well as what made it so effective. Previous to this work, Xavier worked as an intern at All Sides, a political media company. Xavier has presented an academic paper at USC’s annual Thematic Option Honors Program Conference (2023).

Yana Savitsky is a Summer Fellow for the Reclaim Project’s Social Media Team. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, she is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree in Journalism at the University of Southern California. Yana is interested in how interpersonal relationships intersect with late-stage capitalism, especially on the Internet. Prior to the Reclaim Project, she researched the global response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the consequences of experiencing warfare through social media. Yana has directed several award-winning short films and documentaries alongside nonprofits like Beacon Place and Unsugarcoated Media.