Mikayla Tillery

Biography

Mikayla I. Tillery, Cranberry Township, is a senior at Stanford University completing dual degrees in Urban Studies and African and African American Studies. Her honors thesis focuses on Black American cartographies of the twentieth century. A Truman Scholar and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Mikayla has served on a Stanford Board of Trustees Committee, received a number of campus awards and scholarships, and has been a leader at Stanford to increase recruitment for Black students. She has also completed multiple internships, including with the State Department, the Greenlining Institute, and the Department of Energy. At Oxford, Mikayla aims to pursue a Master’s in Public Policy and an MSc in Comparative Social Policy.