Soleil Magdelena Smith
Graduate Research Assistant
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About
Soleil Smith is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement (IPCE) and is also a 4th year PhD student in Sociology at UIC. She has worked in civic engagement and public scholarship through both her activism work in the city of Chicago and as part of the UIC Community Research Collective. She sees this as extending into her other work as a teaching assistant within the Department of Sociology, where questions of policy and social hurdles to access and equity are frequently considered. She looks forward to helping advance the work of the IDHS in reducing gun violence through community centered, holistic initiatives.
Outside of work, Soleil can be found leading bird walks, organizing, reading, and making prints.