Policy
We advocate for equitable financial aid and higher education systems.
Policy Priorities
The policy team works with students, practitioners, and uAspire advisors to identify challenges students face accessing financial aid and develop advocacy priorities each year.
Policy Fellowship
Through a paid fellowship, college students build advocacy skills and influence policymakers to make higher education more affordable and equitable.
Fellows are undergraduate students in California, Massachusetts, and New York, who are Pell-eligible or have DACA or TPS status. The fellowship builds a pipeline for underrepresented voices into politics and ensures policymakers are hearing directly from those most affected by policies.
"We see firsthand the obstacles students across the country face affording college. We experience the problems. We know the needed solutions.”
Student Policy Fellows
Tara Delcarmen
Binghamton University
T'Kai Harvey
City University of New York, Hunter College
Yesenia Bedolla Jaimes
California Polytechnic State University
Michelle Jean-Louis
Harvard College
Eraste Talla Ngoualadjo
Bunker Hill Community College
Joel Salas-Villa
University of California, Los Angeles
Publications
The Latest
Mass. should add another high school graduation requirement
In the Media
How to Support Students Through the New FAFSA Timeline
Blog
New Federal Regulations Require Clearer Financial Aid Offers and Ban Most Transcript Withholding
Blog
Policy Team
Melissa Clarke
New York Policy Director
Anika Van Eaton
Vice President of Policy
Parshan Khosravi
California Policy Director
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Femi Stoltz
Massachusetts Policy Director