2025-26 Graduate Fellows
Fernanda Rebelato
Fernanda’s research aims to engage with feminist critiques of capitalism’s organization of production and social reproduction, particularly the ongoing crisis of care, neoliberal structures and welfare systems. By mapping the territorialization of care policies, her project examines the reframing of paid and unpaid work, interactions with informality, and state structures of social protection in Latin America.
Nakshi Shah
Nakshi Shah is a designer and an aspiring strategist pursuing her Master’s in Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design. With a background in architecture and graphic design, her work explores cultural and creative strategy, asking how design can connect ideas, people, and stories in meaningful ways. As a Robert L. Heilbroner Fellow, she is co-developing two research projects. One investigates how streaming platforms commodify waiting and attention, while the other examines how Gen Z consumes through symbols, moods, and spectacle instead of ownership. Together, these projects trace the shifting ways capitalism reinvents itself through what we buy, how we feel, and the rhythms by which we pace and perform our lives.
Vidhi Shah
Vidhi Shah is a graduate student at Parsons School of Design, majoring in Design Strategies, a space where systems thinking meets hands-on creativity. She is also looking to minor in Anthropology, which helps her bring a critical lens to how people live, consume, and create meaning. Her work moves across branding, cultural research, and impact strategy, often at the crossroads of storytelling and problem framing. Lately, she has been exploring how design can challenge patterns of overconsumption. At the same time, she is working toward building consulting practices that support the social justice space.
Florian Zhang
Project Description:
Chiang Mai, a northern Thai city, is a global knot where multinational capital and people intersect and are differentiated, shaping a complex economic, political, and cultural ecosystem. This project examines the experiences of different migrant groups, particularly Chinese and Burmese, as they integrate into, negotiate with, and at times escape from the local manifestations of global capitalism in Chiang Mai as well as in their home countries.
2024-2025 NSSR Graduate Fellows
Aditi Dey
2024-25 and NSSR Fellow
Carlos José Celis
2024-25 and NSSR Fellow
Julia Ballester
2024-25 and NSSR Fellow
Marc Triller
2024-25 and NSSR Fellow