Former Fellow Nisha Agarwal (’06) was featured in a New York Times profile highlighting her battle against the Republican tax plan’s possible effect on medical research (“‘It’s My Life’: Brain Cancer Motivates City Commissioner’s Activism,” Dec. 19). Nisha, the commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, suffers from a rare form of brain cancer and worries that cuts in medical funding could slow the work of researchers.
