Colby King

Education: Pursuing a BA in African American Studies from Columbia University 

Recent projects include: Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Interests: Reading memoirs, making and discovering new playlists, baking, and horror films

Colby is an undergraduate student at Columbia University majoring in African American Studies with a concentration in Psychology. He has previously interned at the American Civil Liberties Union and the Vera Institute of Justice on projects focused on criminal legal system reform policy. He also worked as a humanities teaching assistant for the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) program at MIT. His interests lie at the intersection of racial justice, human psychology, and law.

At Columbia, he serves as the Race and Ethnicity Representative for Columbia College Student Council and as a member of the University Senate Committee on External Relations and Research Policy. In these roles, he's advocated for changes to financial aid policies affecting low-income students during the COVID-19 pandemic, researched campus security policies to address racial disparities, and worked with campus student groups to address racial, ethnic, and/or religious discrimination across the university. For fun, he is an undergraduate producer on a podcast that interviews academics on a variety of literature and media related subjects and a staff writer for the Columbia Political Review. Born in Houston and raised in Dallas, he calls his native Texas home.