Reagan Neviska graduated from Kenyon College in 2017, where her undergraduate work in Anthropology focused primarily on issues of race and structural violence in Haiti and New Orleans, Louisiana. Reagan is a full-time staff member in the Office of Information Technology, and a part-time graduate student pursuing her masters degree in Art History. She is also a candidate for the graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her proposed thesis  “Competing Narratives in Appalachian Photography: Mass Media Stereotypes and Local Identity Creation from 1960 to 2020,” deals with topics of capitalism, neoliberalism, structural violence, and the scapegoating of marginalized people by the US Government. Following a timeline which begins at President Johnson’s War on Poverty through the present, Reagan’s work deals with analyses of competing identity and how identity expressed visually; through photography. Through her thesis, Reagan intends to explore the disconnect between photo-driven media-representation of Appalachia, and the region’s own artistic expression of identity.