The Pipeline Project

Our faculty are among the most sought after by UConn students seeking mentors like themselves with whom they share similar experiences. The “Pipeline Project” is a feeder program that promotes various pathways to graduate and professional school, involving 1:1 faculty pairings with students. As life-transformative educators, we are hands-on mentors and career advisors who provide high touch service. Our students secure purposeful employment, competitive, merit-based fellowships, summer research experiences, legislative internships, best paper awards, travel grants, etc.

Lizamishel Boateng attended the 2024 annual meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists in Los Angeles, CA from Mar 13-17.
Apprenticing many of whom are first-generation college students, our faculty have helped countless students visualize their own professional goals. Considerable research shows that improving equitable access to norms, soft skills, and informal knowledge via mentoring relationships are effective ways of improving parity in career trajectories. Applying to graduate or professional school is becoming an increasingly common expectation and, in some cases, a requirement for certain career fields. Writing a personal statement and completing the application process is a time consuming and not always intuitive process. The skills needed to write a grant proposal and conduct independent research, with a good chance of success, are usually taught informally and by a mentor.

Meet Our Pipeline Graduates

We're proud of our 100+ alumni and their accomplishments. Our students excel in a variety of exciting careers in law, education, student affairs, public health, etc. Get to know some of our recent alumni and learn more about where their education has taken them.

Mason Holland, Class of 2023

Mason Holland
Hometown: Hackensack, New Jersey                      Current position: Ph.D. student in Political Science at University of Michigan

 

 

 

 

Aaron Hooker, Class of 2021

Aaron Hooker
M.Ed. University of Maryland-College Park, 2023                   Hometown: Hartford, CT Current position: Master's of Divinity Student at Duke University and and Assistant Director of Community Building and Advising at the UNC-Charlotte

 

Tyrese Fenty, Class of 2021

Tyrese Fenty
M.Ed. University of Maryland-College Park, 2023                       Hometown: East Hartford, CT                                      Current position: Program Coordinator of Learning and Development in the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland

 
 

Dr. Odia Kane, Class of 2020

Odia Kane
Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut                 Current Position: BI-IAA AI Ethics and Governance Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy.

 

 

Dr. Leann Mclaren, Class of 2019

LEANN MCLAREN
PhD, Duke University, 2024 Hometown: Manchester, CT Current position: Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University

 

 

 

Dae-Zhane Boland, Class of 2019

Dae'Zhane Boland
MPH, University of Connecticut, 2020 Hometown: Waterbury, CT                                    Current position: Doctoral Student in Community Health Sciences at the University of California-Los Angeles

 

Dr. Sydney Carr, Class of 2018

Sydney Carr
MA, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2023 Hometown: Hamden, CT Current position: Assistant Professor of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross  

 
 
 
 

Megan Handau, Class of 2018

Megan Handau
Hometown: New Fairfield, CT                    Current position: May 2025, Yale Law School Graduate, JD