Sumarha Tariq

Having grown up in both the New York City public school system and as a participant in Peru's education pathways during her upbringing, Sumarha Tariq (she/ella/they) has centered her academic and scholarly passions around the ways in which political corruption can serve as an educational catalyst to youth-led revolution and radical consciousness. As an Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major, while pursuing an Intensive Certificate in Education Studies, Sumarha has become passionate about the ways in which authoritarianism, shown through Latin American government, particularly through Peru's expansive history of political agitation and protests, has come to transform the landscape that shapes the making of the political-refugee identity and futurities. Sumarha is passionate about abolition, anti-carceral studies, and migration pathways. She holds roles at the New York Civil Liberties Union, Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, Yale Interpretation Network, Claro Que Sí: Yale's Premier Latine Undergraduate Magazine, Yale Lawtinas, and as a Head Student Coordinator at La Casa Cultural.