Scholar Profile

Mattie Isaac

Biography

Mattie Isaac is majoring in public policy and minoring in history and African American studies at Princeton. At Princeton, she is a political chair for the Generational African American Student Association where she has helped plan and coordinate initiatives such as a genealogy workshop and a conference on African American history in New Jersey. Additionally, Mattie is a Big Sister with Big Brother Big Sister of Mercer and is the communications chair of Community House executive board, a subsidiary of the Pace Center of Civic Engagement that works with families and underserved youth through tutoring and mentorship. Passionate about history, Mattie's short student film "Preaching to the Heavens and Serving on Earth" won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Stellhorn & Waldron New Jersey Studies Student Award for best Undergraduate Research Project. She has interned for the Poverty and Race Research Action Council in DC and served as a research assistant for the public history project Truth & Repair: The History of Structural Racism in New Jersey. Mattie was the valedictorian of Benjamin Banneker High School, a National African American Recognition Scholar, OSSE Scholar, and CIEE Global Navigator Scholar.

High school:  Benjamin Banneker Senior High School

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