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 president of the Generational African American Student Association, where she has led initiatives like a genealogy workshop and a conference on African American history in New Jersey. Mattie is also a Writing Center Fellow at the Princeton Writing Center and a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer.

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. She also serves as a historian for Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government and has interned with the Poverty and Race Research Action Council and the DC Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. As a research assistant, she contributes to Truth & Repair: The History of Structural Racism in New Jersey, a New Jersey based public history project.

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 Senior High School

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