The AFLSE Scholarship for 2025-2026, covering tuition costs for a year of graduate study at LSE, has been awarded to Bryce Springfield.
Bryce Springfield graduated from Princeton University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and certificates in Latin American Studies and Spanish Language, where his research focused on the political economy of collective action. In his independent work, he has analyzed US military aid allocation, co-optation of the Peruvian labor movement, and the benefits of horizontal structure types in social movements. Bryce further worked as a Research Assistant in Princeton's Industrial Relations Section, contributing to studies on minimum wages, collective bargaining, and incarceration.
Coming from a background of poverty and homelessness, Bryce has dedicated himself as a long-time community organizer to aid in overturning systems of dispossession and marginalization for other families. While in high school, he was extensively involved in electoral and social housing mobilization efforts alongside tenants and workers in Florida, and later expanded to leading and coordinating workplace organizing, mutual aid, international solidarity, and migrant justice campaigns as an undergraduate in New Jersey. Other efforts made by Bryce include mentorship within the first-generation and low-income student (FLI) community, and organizing community events for Rubik's cube enthusiasts.
As he begins a one-year Master of Science in Economics at LSE, Bryce aims to deepen his quantitative and theoretical tools to study how communities on the margins build enduring economic alternatives—from labor unions and worker co-operatives to workers' councils and democratic education. He will continue his academic career in the PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst starting in 2026.
Bryce is thrilled and honored to be the 2025-26 AFLSE Scholarship recipient and looks forward to joining the AFLSE community in dedication to service for humanity.
The AFLSE Scholarship has been at the core of AFLSE efforts to support LSE for 40 years. If you would like further information about making a gift, then please contact Emma Simpson at shapingtheworld@lse.ac.uk. Your gift will make sure AFLSE can always support deserving students like Destiny.