Aaliyah Berryman is a third year student at Northwestern University studying Sociology and International Studies. She joined the Women’s Center during the Fall of 2018 as a work study student, and has been excited to return to the Center ever since. Additionally, she is involved as a Compass mentor for first year fgli students at Northwestern, and engaged with education in Chicago through her work with Neighbor2Neighbor and Supplies for Dreams. Her scholarly interests include Black transnationalism and the way that the perception of Blackness transforms along and across boundaries and borders. Specifically, her research hopes to bridge the understanding of the ways state violence affects Black communities and their struggle for liberation.