EDITORS ALEXI SANTIAGO is a contractor in Washington, DC. She received her Master’s of Science in Legal Studies from the University of San Diego School of Law and her Bachelor's degree from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs with a concentration in International Politics. Alexi currently serves as the President of the US ASEAN Young Professionals Association (USAYPA), Board member of The George Washington University Asia Pacific Islander Alumni Network, and the Foreign Policy and Research Director for the Young Ambassadors Program of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS). NIKITA SHUKLA is a 2022 Pickering Fellow and will be attending the Harvard Kennedy School as a Master in Public Policy candidate. Upon graduating from Tufts University in 2017 she joined the Clinton Health Access Initiative as a global health workforce analytics associate. Nikita has held leadership positions in Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security, Women in Global Health, and the World Economic Forum Global Shapers LA. Nikita, a 2019 USA Head Delegate to the G7 Youth Summit in Paris, France, served as the 2020 Sherpa to the G7 Youth Summit on the COVID-19 response, and received the highest civilian honor from the New Jersey Senate. AMBER DEMERY is an analyst with the US federal government where she works on Asia-related topics and coordinates with government agencies on briefings, products, and cases. Outside of work, Amber is a Young Leader with foreign policy research institute the Pacific Forum; a member of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), where she chairs the Asia and Pacific Working Group and is on the leadership team for Intersectionality in National Security sub-Working Group; and was recently accepted into Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Foreign Policy Initiative. Prior to beginning her professional career, Amber completed a Boren Fellowship from 2014 - 2015 in Japan where she studied Japanese and completed an internship with an Asia-focused human rights organization. She received her Master's degree in International Relations with a focus on Security Studies, Foreign Policy, and Asia from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Howard University in Washington, DC.
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