Alumni

We interviewed two of our alumni about their experience in SNaPP Lab. Read it here.

Click here to read SNaPP alum Megan Carter-Stone’s reflections on how her experience in the lab have helped her since graduation.

 


 

Lab Alumni

Class of 2025

Caroline Callahan

Caroline (’25) is double majoring in Government and Economics. Since joining the lab in 2022, she’s conducted research for Professor Settle’s Advances in Political Psychology literature review and the US DEED project. Her research interests include social capital, political participation, and political communication during election cycles. Caroline has also completed independent research through both the Monroe Scholar and McGlennon Scholar programs. Outside of the lab, she is a member of Smart Woman Securities and enjoys playing tennis.

Zoe Cummings

Zoe (’25) is majoring in data science and minoring in math. She joined the lab in 2023 and she is working on the Podcast Project.

Sofia DeChiara

Sofia DeChiara (’25) is studying Finance with a minor in Religious Studies. Since joining the SNaPP Lab in Fall 2022, she’s worked predominantly on the US DEED project studying state level democratic erosion. Sofia’s data analysis and visualization report mapped the relationship between environmental conditions to her own Spotify listening history. In her free time, Sofia enjoys swimming, the NYT mini crossword, and spending time with friends. 

Tess Delice

Tess Delice (’25) is from Richmond, VA, and majoring in government. She joined the SNaPP Lab in 2023 and is a member of the US DEED research team. Her research interests include international relations research. Outside of the lab, she is a Monroe Scholar and enjoys reading and hiking.

Jack Frimet

Jack (’25) is majoring in economics and government. Since he joined the lab in 2022, he has assisted Professor Settle in her research for a literature review to be published in Advances in Political Psychology. He is currently part of the US DEED research team. Beyond the lab, he is a member of the club ice hockey team.

Jasmine Lewis

Jasmine (’25) is majoring in government with a minor in data science. She joined the SNaPP Lab in 2023 and is part of the Podcast Project. Outside the lab, she is a tutor and policy builder for W&M’s chapter of Mindversity.

Class of 2024

Mac Ambler

Mac (’24) majored in data science. A three-year member of the SNaPP lab, he worked on multiple projects including the textual analysis group, US DEED project, and, most recently, the Podcast Project. Outside of the lab, he worked with the W&M Football Team and performed improv comedy with Improvisational Theatre.

Skyler Seets

Skyler (’24) majored in data science and public policy. Throughout her two years in the lab, she worked on a variety of projects, including the Linguistic Turing Project, the US DEED Project, and the podcast Project. Outside of the lab, Skyler was involved in Disinfo Lab, Vox, and was the show manager for the William & Mary pep band. For the 2024 election cycle, she will be working in Washington, DC at Clarity Campaign Labs, a progressive polling organization, before working as a computational social science research assistant at Pew Research Center in 2025.

Class of 2023

Kaylie Martinez-Ochoa

Erin Rollins

Ani Sreekumar

John Willis

2013 – 2022

Jonah Abraham

Joe Barry

Joanna Borman

Dan Brown

Ally Brown

Alex Bulova

Shannon Caietti

Julia Campbell

Megan Carter-Stone

Karina Charipova

Claudia Chen

Vera Choo

Leslie Davis

Laurel Detert

Emma DiLauro

Nora Donnelly

Emily Draper

Sorrah Edwards-Thro

Yussre El-Bardicy

Drew Engelhardt

Katie English

Cort Enoksen

Will Evans

Zachary Fallon

Taylor Feenstra

Katie Ferguson

Aidan Fielding

Jonah Fishel

Emily Goldfein

Daniela Gonzalez Tapia

Mitch Hall

Michelle Hermes

Edward Hernandez

Dana Holmstrand

Kristin Hopkins

Olivia Jebb

Zarine Kharazian

Carl Lasker

Hayden Le

Jake Lewitz

Andrew Luchs

Gabe Manion

Sahil Mehrotra

Grace Murray

Jacob Nelson

Abby Newell

Nick Oviedo Torres

Alexis Payne

Michael Payne

Annie Pietrow

Julia Polentes

Kathleen Quigley

Emily Saylor

Meg Schwenzfeier

Scott Shapses

John Stuart

Frank Tao

Daniel Tay

Yohance Whitaker

Amanda Wong

Olivia Yang