Olivia Paschal

Intern

Olivia is an undergraduate at Yale University majoring in history and political science, with focuses on state and local policy and Southern religion and culture. She is a director's fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and previously served as a managing editor for The Politic, Yale's undergraduate journal of politics and culture. She has written and advocated for reforms on issues ranging from sexual assault to mass incarceration and welfare.

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Articles by Olivia

The rural South defies demographic and political stereotypes

By Olivia Paschal

June 16, 2017 - Rural areas draw the ire of Trump opponents on the left and right who charge that residents voted against their own interests. But in the South, which has the country's biggest rural Black population and growing numbers of rural Hispanics, many of the rural communities most threatened by Trump's policies did not vote for him.

Trump budget would devastate vulnerable Southern communities

By Olivia Paschal

May 26, 2017 - The Trump administration's budget proposal would cut billions of dollars in funding for programs that provide essential services to vulnerable rural and immigrant communities across the South — with no plan for how to replace them.