Kate Redburn of San Francisco, California is an American History and African Studies major, focusing on the ways historically oppressed people exert power from a position of relative weakness. At Columbia, she has been involved in several social justice organizations, and this Spring she founded the Columbia chapter of the Student Farmworker Alliance, working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve labor benefits for tomato pickers in Florida. She plans to pursue a career in public interest law, specializing in land use rights.