Scholar Profile

Mattie Isaac

Biography

Mattie Isaac is a public policy major at Princeton University, with minors in history and African American studies. She serves as a Writing Center Fellow at the Princeton University Writing Center and a Peer Academic Advisor for Butler College. At Princeton, she has also served as president and political action chair of the Generational African American Student Association, a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer, a historian for the Undergraduate Student Government, and a member of the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble. Her passion for history led to her short film Preaching to the Heavens and Serving on Earth, which won the NJ Studies Academic Alliance’s Undergraduate Research Award, and to two years spent as a research assistant for Truth & Repair: The History of Structural Racism in New Jersey, a New Jersey based public history project. She is also passionate about public service and criminal justice and has interned at the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the DC Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, and The Legal Aid Society. As a member of the 2025-2026 cohort of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs' Policy Advocacy Clinic, Mattie contributed to a report on death in custody procedures and presented findings to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland. A graduate of Benjamin Banneker High School, Mattie was class valedictorian and recognized as a National African American Recognition Scholar, OSSE Scholar, and CIEE Global Navigator Scholar.

High school:  Benjamin Banneker High School

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