Sloan Talbot is a Writing Specialist for the National Scholarships and Fellowships Program and a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology. Her current research investigates the social categories of first generation and/or low-income students in spaces of higher education. Sloan's doctoral research is supported through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (NSF GRFP). As an undergraduate, Sloan also participated in the Humanity in Action John Lewis Fellowship in Atlanta.