Ivy AM Cargile Editor

Ivy A.M. Cargile (B.A. California State University, Fullerton; M.A. and PhD Claremont Graduate University) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University, Bakersfield.

Denise Davis (B.A. University of Redlands; MSc London School of Economics) is the Director of the Women’s Resource Center at the University of California, Riverside. Denise has spent her career working in Student Affairs and teaching Gender and Sexuality Studies in higher education. In 2017, she launched the inaugural Persist
Women’s Political Engagement Conference at the University of California, Riverside, which was the first of its kind in the region.

Jennifer Merolla (B.A. Boston College; M.A. and Ph.D. Duke University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. She is co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public, published with the University of Chicago Press (2009), and Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion and Policy, published with the Russell Sage Foundation (2016).

Rachel VanSickle-Ward (B.A. Pitzer College; M.A. and Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of Political Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Her first book, The Devil is in the Details: Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity (SUNY Press, 2014; winner, Herbert A. Simon Book Award), explores the impact of political and institutional fragmentation on policy wording, focusing on the dynamics of social
policy construction in the states.