Ella Klahr Bunnell is an American Studies major at Stanford University where she studies issues of justice, equity and conflict. She has interned with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice where she researched voting procedures, and with the ACLU where she conducted research on race and criminal justice. A Boston native, Ella also interned with Congressman Joseph Kennedy and Senator Elizabeth Warren. At Stanford, she has assisted a Stanford professor in her research on civilian oversight of police violence and is currently analyzing criminal disenfranchisement law, with a focus on America’s divergence from international norms and modern democratic practices since the 1970s, for her senior thesis. Last year, Ella’s paper on W.E.B DuBois was published in the Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal and was designated as one of the best papers for the 2016-2017 academic year. She will study Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast.
George J. Mitchell Scholarship, Class of 2020