Born and raised in the Republic of Korea, Ji Eun majored in political science and diplomacy at Yonsei University, Seoul. Ji Eun is a career diplomat and had served for 8 years before joining the MPA program at Princeton. Her job portfolio in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extensively covered European and Southeast Asian affairs (mostly ASEAN), human rights and social affairs, press relations, and, most recently, North Korean nuclear policy. While she dealt with Southeast Asian affairs, her focus was on exploring cooperation between Korea and other countries' policies in the Indo-Pacific region. During her MPA studies, she hopes to dig more deeply into the geopolitical dynamics in the region, and how regional strategies would interact with each other. In her free time, she enjoys going to musicals, movies, and art exhibitions as well as exploring new cities. She also likes to play tennis, swim, and scuba dive (has a PADI advanced license), and she is currently learning golf, yoga, and pilates.

Peter spent most of his childhood on Long Island, New York, before moving to Missoula, Montana, in high school. He graduated from Williams College in 2020, where he majored in political economy and philosophy and minored in cognitive science. After graduating, he served with AmeriCorps VISTA as a data analyst at Emmaus, a homeless shelter and affordable housing developer in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He then worked as a data analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he worked on data privacy, inter-agency data sharing, and analytics projects. Peter was selected to intern as a Data Scientist Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington this summer, as part of the Coding it Forward Fellowship program. After graduating from Princeton, Peter hopes to continue working in the public sector designing systems and strategies to improve government service evaluation.

Teddy studied Economics, Public Policy, and Data Science at the University of Chicago. In that time, he did research on education and housing issues at the Urban Education Institute, the Aspen Institute, and the Paul Douglas Institute. Prior to Princeton SPIA, he worked at Boston Consulting Group where he primarily supported state government clients across topics including public health, public transit, higher education, and inclusive economic development. After graduation, he intends to work directly in government to help the state more effectively redistribute resources and deliver services to people that need them. Teddy grew up in Davis, California, and considers Chicago his second hometown. He spent his pre-SPIA summer recording an album with his band The Front Desk.

Tina was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in cities across California and Canada. Before Princeton, she worked on the Housing and Community Development team at the National League of Cities, focused on eviction prevention and housing research. She served as the data lead for the Eviction Prevention Learning Lab and manager of the Landlord Engagement Lab, two technical assistance programs launched in partnership with Stanford Law School’s Legal Design Lab for cities to identify best practices, programs, policies and tools to prevent evictions and advance housing stability. Tina also managed several research projects on short-term rentals and a joint research project with Cornell University to study the impact of institutional investors on housing and to identify promising local policy responses. Prior to coming to Princeton, Tina enjoyed working on passion projects which involved, you guessed it, more housing work and spending time traveling through Central Europe. This summer, Tina interned as a Fellow at the New York City Mayor's Office. After graduating, Tina plans to continue working in housing, particularly on translating housing research into policy action and addressing the financialization of housing. In her free time, Tina enjoys hiking, cooking, knitting, and pottery.

Beatrice was born and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey, and graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Economics in February 2021. After graduation, Beatrice worked at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. She first worked as a Research Assistant at AEI’s Survey Center on American Life, designing original survey questionnaires on topics including social networks, family structure, and the relationship between gender and politics. Later, she worked as a Research Associate of Economic Policy Studies, supporting research on applied economics, public economics, and monetary policy. At Princeton SPIA, Beatrice aims to better understand how changing demographic landscapes impact the federal government’s ability to collect data on its residents, and the implications such changes have on the policy landscape.