Yarin (Yareen) Hagay Nevel is a third-year psychology student with a minor in Israel Studies in the Honors College. In 2023, Yarin served as the Head of International Admissions for BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, a progressive Israeli liberal arts program with emphases in social work-oriented volunteering and Israeli-Palestinian dual narrative studies. Her current psychological research experiences include researching critical consciousness with UCLA’s SPHERE Lab, intervention development and implementation for Israeli-American teenagers in Palo Alto, California, and a grant for a mirrored study researching antisemitism and Islamophobia through UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate. Yarin hopes to pursue her research interests in inter-group relations and international conflict resolution by being the first in her family to complete a doctorate.