CV

Professional Summary

I am a 2019 graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with direct experience working in a conflict zone as well as extensive research experience in the fields of extremism, governance, human rights, and monitoring, evaluation, and analysis. 

My research background includes primary, secondary, and open source. Several of my papers written while at Fletcher have been published by the British think tank, Islamic Theology for Counter-Terrorism. I wrote numerous pieces on Afghanistan—its politics, its extremists, its current climate, its regional role, and the negotiations with the Taliban. Additionally, I conducted and transcribed interviews for our security journal, including one with the former ambassador to Pakistan. I also spent the summer of 2018 as a research intern at a think tank in Israel, the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, both doing my own research and assisting the staff in theirs.

In 2016, I joined the Yazidi nonprofit Yazda to assist with research, writing, and editing, and on location near Mosul with the local staff to compile the data needed to meet the audit guidelines of the UN financial assistance programs in which Yazda was participating. I also worked directly with the displaced community, both gathering data and teaching volunteers about working with children with trauma and aiding women who had escaped ISIS captivity.

In my most recent position at Strategic Capacity Group, a DC-based nonprofit, I worked on security related projects in Asia and Africa, typically in in conjunction with military, government officials, and civil society leaders. I engaged with programs from their initial development to their monitoring, evaluation, and subsequent analysis.

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In my next position I am looking to harness my research and writing skills to assist an organization in making change in the Middle East.