Policy
We advocate for equitable financial aid and higher education systems.
![Policy](/getattachment/37ca3e7f-c241-43c3-8c99-9a8590c0e484/Policy-header.jpg)
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.
![Policy Fellowship](/getattachment/795ec4ca-652d-49d3-b5e6-215aeee4d5ac/Policy-fellows.jpg?width=500)
"We see firsthand the obstacles students across the country face affording college. We experience the problems. We know the needed solutions.”
Student Policy Fellows
![Chayanne Barrientos](/getattachment/e781fe34-dfe2-4342-81ff-cf061844c790/Chayanne.jpg)
Chayanne Barrientos
Massachusetts Bay Community College
![Jorge Pereira Martinez](/getattachment/b0cdb0be-2381-4ff7-8a01-732f6c244103/Jorge.jpg)
Jorge Pereira Martinez
Columbia University
![Aisha Porcher](/getattachment/c63438b1-2b83-4a27-a04c-718736a78f7d/Aisha.jpg)
Aisha Porcher
Springfield College
![Rosalyn Rojas Rodriguez](/getattachment/06880370-0d71-40fa-988b-88c0dc7fd191/Rosalyn.jpg)
Rosalyn Rojas Rodriguez
Columbia University in the City of New York
![Amara Santos](/getattachment/29fab9e3-3e5b-47cf-a6b6-9a4e8ad438c9/Amara.jpg)
Amara Santos
San Francisco State University
![Evelyne Aviles Velazquez](/getattachment/3a109634-f81e-45fd-97e9-c196ec87d56a/Evelyne.jpg)
Evelyne Aviles Velazquez
Pomona College
Policy Team
![Melissa Clarke](/getattachment/724d3346-8138-441b-9ddc-f0ca21565635/Melissa-Clarke.jpg)
Melissa Clarke
New York Policy Director
![Anika Van Eaton](/getattachment/6b4b5f92-8bcd-496f-a968-05cdfbd8911c/Anika-Van-Eaton.jpg)
Anika Van Eaton
Vice President of Policy
![Parshan Khosravi](/getattachment/c50daa87-6641-46a5-a4a6-a5aaed6a25df/Parshan-Khosravi.jpg)
Parshan Khosravi
California Policy Director
![Femi Stoltz](/getattachment/c30f4e8d-eebe-4104-a2b6-99db02aaa48b/Femi-Stoltz(sized).jpg)
Femi Stoltz
Massachusetts Policy Director