About Us
Meet Our Team
Andre Anaya is a law student at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law and Executive Editor of Constitutional Currents. Through C.C, he hopes to make constitutional engagements engaging and accessible to a broad audience.
Andre Anaya
Executive Editor
Founding Member
Shahana Polselli is a 2026 J.D. Candidate at the William S. Boyd School of Law, and Senior Paralegal (now Law Clerk) at The Jimmerson Law Firm, P.C. for eighteen years. Her role as Articles Editor with the Nevada Law Journal, her moot court competitions on constitutional issues, her work helping create Constitutional Currents, her hand-on experience as a family law mediator, her involvement in the pro bono program, and her participation in Boyd’s “Making the Law” competition, each reflect her passion for making legal scholarship accessible to the broader community. She was recognized in 2026 with the Perry Friedman Civil Liberties Scholarship for her deep engagement with constitutional issues.
Shahana Polselli
Executive Editor
Founding Member
Kerri Richards is a law student at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law and Executive Editor of Constitutional Currents. She studies constitutional law, voting rights, democracy, and appellate advocacy, and believes constitutional law should not belong only to lawyers and scholars. Her work focuses on making the Constitution understandable, relevant, and part of everyday public conversation.
Kerri Richards
Executive Editor
Founding Member
Yvette Machado-Tuinier
Executive Editor
Founding Member
Yvette Machado-Tuinier is a third-year student at UNLV, William S. Boyd School of Law. A dedicated advocate for civil liberties and constitutional literacy, she serves as President of the American Constitution Society and the Immigrant Rights Coalition. She is a Marshall-Brennan Fellow and a founding member of Constitutional Currents. Above all, she is a proud Latina-American daughter of Immigrants.
Tinisha D. Brugnone
Communications and Content Management
Web Designer
Tinisha D. Brugnone is an award winning filmmaker from Detroit, Michigan, with experience in field producing, unit production management, liaison work, videography and other aspects of film production. She is also a published author and graduate student at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. With a background in media arts and a passion for storytelling, Tinisha is interested in the intersection of journalism, digital media, web development, and communications.
Faculty Advisors & Oversight
UNR Center for Constitutional Law