Olivia Roark

Intern, Brown's Promise

Olivia Roark is a senior at Rice University studying Social Policy Analysis and Cognitive Sciences. She grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she first became interested in school integration and education justice through a high school student group called Youth for Equity. Olivia is bilingual (Spanish/English) and is passionate about increasing linguistic, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in schools so that all students can learn from those who are different from them and have access to the resources they deserve.