Student Profile
Sokona Diallo
Human Services, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor Awards (UGRCE)
2017
The Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Awards encourage students from all years, colleges, and majors to deepen their experiential engagement through an original intellectual or creative contribution to their discipline, in collaboration with a faculty mentor.Project Title: Love Your Melanin: Reducing the Dangerous Practice of Skin Bleaching in Black and Brown CommunitiesMentor: Dominguez, Silvia
About
Sokona Diallo will complete a project entitled, "Love Your Melanin: Reducing the Dangerous Practice of Skin Bleaching in Black and Brown Communities." The project will be a qualitative study on intervention and policy strategies to reduce the practice of skin bleaching using a comparative analysis of two population (Indian citizen and African Immigrants in Philly).