Avery Shields, George Washington University
Avery is a rising junior at the George Washington University studying political science and French, and she will be joining the ACE team as a member of the immigration policy team. While participating in an all-female national security scholar program, Avery’s work was published in a novel by CIA Senior Counterterrorism Advisor, Gina Bennett. Having […]
Huili Zhu, Boston University
Born and raised in Shanghai in the 1980s, Huili (Cindy) had never thought that China’s rise would come true so quickly even beyond her wildest imagination. In 2011, it was Huili’s first time visiting the U.S. and she spent one semester at UNC at Chapel Hill as an MBA exchange student. The big gap between […]
Tra My Duong, Emory University
Tra My (she/her/hers) is originally from Hanoi, Vietnam and is currently an undergraduate at Emory University studying Biology and Economics. Tra My is hoping to pursue a graduate degree in Public Health/ Healthcare Management upon the completion of her undergraduate degree. She is passionate about healthcare rights and healthcare systems reform, ending health disparities and […]
Catherine Devaney, University at Albany (SUNY)
Catherine Devaney is an International Student from the United Kingdom, completing her Bachelors of Political Science alongside her Master’s in International Affairs at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her concentration for both programs is Global Governance and Diplomacy with an interest in Foreign Policy and Human Rights, both here in the […]
Tasnia Mowla, Mount Holyoke College
Tasnia is a rising senior at Mount Holyoke College majoring in International Relations with a focus on international peace and security. She is also pursuing a minor in Entrepreneurship, Organizations and Society. Her research interest lies in European politics and institutions and refugees and migration. Tasnia is passionate about gender equality and currently works as […]
Aidan Scible, Middlebury College
Aidan is a rising junior at Middlebury College in Vermont, studying Political Science and Arabic. He is President of the Middlebury Chapter of the Roosevelt Network and a member of the Middlebury Debate Society. Outside of academics, he has worked as an intern at a law firm specializing in immigration law, and as a campaign […]
Skylar Davidson, University of California-Berkeley
Skylar (she/her/hers) is an incoming fourth year at the University of California, Berkeley where she is double majoring in Global Studies (functional concentration in Peace and Conflict, regional concentration in the Middle East + North Africa) and Legal Studies. She has a keen interest in Middle Eastern politics and how different cultures around the world […]
Paige Lane, University of Virginia
Ms. Paige Lane completed three years at The Kent School (Kent, CT) before completing her high school education at Fusion Academy in San Francisco, CA. She is currently a rising sophomore at the University of Virginia where she majors in Mathematics and Economics with a minor in Public Policy. She balances this with her time […]
Julien Rentsch, Northwestern University
Julien Rentsch is a rising junior at Northwestern University studying political science, international studies, and music. He has worked at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research, and he founded the Northwestern chapter of the University Blood Initiative. Next academic year, he will work as a research assistant under a political science professor, conducting research on Syrian […]
Joshua Feller, Hamilton College
Joshua Feller is a rising sophomore at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He went to Plainview Old-Bethpage John F Kennedy high school. He is interested in foreign policy, specifically law and security. Throughout his time in school, he has taken a focus on international relations courses and plans to take more. Feller is the founder, […]