Daisha was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts. She graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s in East Asian studies and the history of science, medicine, and public health. At Yale, Daisha received the Richard U. Light Fellowship twice for fully-funded foreign language study abroad. She studied Korean at Seoul National University’s language center and Mandarin at the CET program in Kunming, China. She interned remotely for the State Department in D.C. and in person at the consulate in Casablanca, Morocco. Daisha was selected as a 2023 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow, and this summer completed her overseas internship with the U.S. Department of State in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Originally from North Carolina, Caroline graduated from Appalachian State University with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature and a B.S. in International and Comparative Politics. While an undergraduate student, she explored local impacts of global affairs in North Carolina through internships with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants in Raleigh and the U.S. House of Representatives. Post-graduation, she spent a summer studying Turkish language through the Critical Language Scholarship, after which her passion for language learning and teaching led her to spend a year and a half teaching English in Istanbul, Turkey. Following this, she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she taught English in Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities and volunteered with peacebuilding and environmental initiatives. Most recently, she worked in Baku, Azerbaijan, with American Councils as the Resident Director for the Turkish Flagship Language Initiative Program and the Critical Language Scholarship program. At Princeton SPIA, she hopes to strengthen her regional expertise and deepen her understanding of intersections of climate change, conflict, and migration policy to be an impactful public servant. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, language learning, photography, and all types of dance.

Alex grew up in Milan, Italy, with family in Italy and California. Prior to joining Princeton SPIA, he was a political appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration, serving in various roles in the Department of Defense, including under the Deputy Secretary of Defense, under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies, and under the Chief Strategy Officer for Research of Engineering. He previously worked on the Biden for President campaign in 2020, for Governor Gavin Newsom during the 2021 recall campaign, and was one of the first team members of Europe Elects, creating their website and poll averages. Alex studied Engineering of Computing Systems at the Politecnico di Milano and at Princeton will continue to explore the role of investment in emerging technologies and industrial policy in the future of the United States.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Anna obtained her bachelor’s degree in international political economy as a Eugene McDermott Scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has interned for the Department of State, the International Rescue Committee, and The Brookings Institution as an Archer Fellow, then studied French and taught English in Évian-les-Bains, France. She is a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow and will work as a Foreign Service Officer after completing her MPA. This past summer, she completed her first internship with the United States Foreign Service in Washington. An avid (and slow) runner, Anna spends her free time visiting friends and family and enjoying the great outdoors. 

Dylan is a Harry S. Truman Scholar from Marlboro, New Jersey. He studied political science and economics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where he conducted legal research at the intersection of public policy and emerging technologies. While at Rutgers, Dylan was an Undergraduate Associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. From 2017 until 2023, Dylan served on the Board of Directors for Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), a national nonprofit dedicated to promoting the safety and well-being of students across the country. After graduating from Rutgers, Dylan became the inaugural Director of Operations for Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG), a nonprofit that aims to promote technological innovation with the defense industrial base of the United States and its allies. Dylan has volunteered as an emergency medical technician with his local EMS Squad in New Jersey since 2015, where he also currently serves as Vice President of the organization.