Maia Powell

Maia Powell (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of California, Merced. She received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2020 and is an active member of multiple graduate clubs at UC Merced, including the Graduate Student Association and RadioBio podcast. Her research examines the nature of disagreement on social media, structural differences between different types of speech, and spread of misinformation online.