Jacob Pagano
Jacob Pagano is a Juris Doctor (J.D.) candidate at the UCLA School of Law, where he focuses on international law. He is a graduate of Amherst College, where he was awarded the Ralph Waldo Rice prize for his thesis on how interpersonal affirmation is impeded and reimagined by racialized speakers in works by James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison.
He is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Ozy, Sapiens, Narratively, Critical Read, Oxford Review of Books, and Amherst Magazine, among others. He has lived and traveled extensively in China, and he speaks Mandarin.
Jacob previously worked at RALLY: A Communications firm, where he consulted on communications strategies for issue advocacy organizations in spaces including homelessness, public education, and urban planning.
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