Undergraduate Senior Thesis

For her undergraduate senior thesis in Fall 2024, Isabella wrote her 8,000-word paper on the life and legacy of Olive Morris to argue how Black British organizations need to use feminism and socialism in order to combat racism.

Isabella extensively researched Olive Morris, the British Black Panthers, the Brixton Black Women’s Group (BWG), the Organization for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD), Black Radicalism, and Black Nationalism. She interviewed former BWG and OWAAD member, Gail Lewis, who is currently a Professor at Yale.

Virtual Exhibits

In Spring 2024, in her “Paradigms of Genocide” course, Isabella added to the digital exhibit on the 1994 Genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She selected to research and present on the denial of the Rwandan Genocide.

Kwibuka 30, Panel 19

In Spring 2023, in her “Holocaust and Media” course, Isabella added to the Virtual Holocaust Film Festival with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She chose the film The Cremator, which was released in Czechoslovakia in 1969.

Studying and Interning Abroad

In the Summer of 2023, Isabella studied abroad with CIEE in Rome, Italy. She excelled in two classes: “Exploring Rome, The Birthplace of the Modern Museum” and “Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci: The Story Behind the Italian Renaissance.” In both, she spent half of her classes at the beautiful CIEE campus and half on-site. Some of her favorite on-site classes were at the Vatican, Doria Pamphilji Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art, and Capitoline Museum. Being able to take classes at breathtaking monuments and museums was both exciting and humbling. One of her favorite moments was giving a presentation in front of the Laocoön sculpture in the Vatican museums.

In the Summer of 2024, Isabella was invited back to Rome, Italy to intern with CIEE. She felt that it was an incredible experience to return to the city that she fell in love with. Coming back to CIEE’s campus as an intern gave her an even better experience than as a student. She got to experience the professional side of how studying abroad works as she helped out with American high school students traveling to Rome. Her favorite experience was bringing the students to the locations she traveled to the prior summer, and seeing the look of awe on their faces as she had.

Scholarships

Isabella was the 2025 recipient of the Ernst Aronsohn Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is given to those minoring in Human Rights and Genocide Studies with a GPA of 3.25 or higher.

Ernst Aronsohn (1917-2015) was born in the town of Posen, in what is now Poland. Due to his Jewish faith, he had to live in Italy, never seeing his family again, who perished under the Nazis. Aronsohn moved around from Denmark, Sweden, and Israel, where he was recruited by the United States to help find Nazi war criminals in Germany. Along with other Holocaust survivors, Aronsohn and his wife settled in Queens, New York. He has had a successful finance career. The Yanowitz family created this scholarship to honor his memory.”

Isabella was the 2025 recipient of the MMG Scholarship Endowment in Memory of Jase Barrack. This scholarship is given to those minoring in Human Rights and Genocide Studies with a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

The Michelle Mitzvah Group (MMG) of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Temple was formed 25 years ago as a living memorial for one of the children of the Temple community. The group created the MMG Scholarship Endowment in memory of Jase Barrack, a member of the community who died in May 2019.

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