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Alex Diaz

Election Year: 2014

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: New Jersey & New College 2014

Alex Diaz

Biography

Alexander J. Diaz, North Bergen, is a senior at Harvard majoring in psychology. Alex has focused his studies and research on the cognitive mechanisms that underlie unconscious race, ethnic and gender bias, and has worked with leading law enforcement authorities to use psychological research to achieve less biased trials. He has also been active in the Harvard Kennedy School Latino Leadership Institute and in many programs in disadvantaged Latino communities, especially in his home town of Union City, New Jersey, but also in New York City's lower east side. He plays club basketball and managed Harvard's varsity basketball team.