Yadira Lopez is an Emerson Fellow with the Immigration and Immigrant Families team. She is also a fellow in the 32nd class of the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship.

Yadira previously worked with the policy team at Hunger Free Oklahoma, where she analyzed the impact of recent legislation impacting SNAP benefits and the resulting effects on overall participation, food security, and the SNAP benefits cliff in the state. She was also a student research assistant with the Stress, Pregnancy, and Health Kids study, where she contributed in efforts to understand the effect of maternal stress on child development from ages 0-5.

Yadira earned a B.A. in Psychology and Global Health Studies from Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a research assistant with the Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes Lab, where she worked on projects analyzing police brutality, protests, and moral outrage through a social psychology lens.