Carson Michel is a rising senior at Columbia College studying philosophy and religion. His academic and research interests revolve around leveraging the role of philosophy and religion in the struggle for tangible political and socio-economic change for the working class. Through this work, he aims to highlight how belief, ideology, and faith lie at the core of areas such as healthcare policy, criminal justice reform, and housing equity. For Carson, actualizing social change is therefore as much a crisis of theoretical foundations as it is of literal levers of action. Carson sees the Social Impact Fellowship as an opportunity to deepen his understanding of the different mechanisms and tools that are available to combat injustice. He hopes to learn how to leverage nonprofit apparatus and grassroots political organizing to enact important social change on the local, state, and national level, alongside a team of like-minded peers.