Sydney Coleman

Vanderbilt University

Decatur, GA

Major: Anthropology and Sociology

Public Service Vision: I plan to focus on criminal justice reform. The mass incarceration of Black people heavily impacted the lives of the people around me when I was a child and teenager, making this work profoundly personal and meaningful to me.

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