Sarah was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Germany. She comes to Princeton from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, where she worked as an advocate to promote increased support for children and families affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. Prior to joining Sesame Workshop, Sarah worked for Salzburg Global Seminar, taught English in Germany as a Fulbright Fellow, and worked as a White House Advance Associate for the Obama Administration. This summer, she worked as an Research Intern at the International Organization for Migration in Nairobi, Kenya. After completing her studies at Princeton, Sarah plans to continue working as an advocate and urging policymakers and funders to prioritize support for children and families in humanitarian response globally.

Nada is from the greater Princeton area in New Jersey. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a B.A. in economics and minors in public policy analysis and computer science, Nada worked as a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she supported projects focusing on racial discrimination in the American criminal legal system. She then worked as a data analyst at Bloomberg, where she managed financial data focusing on the healthcare industry in the U.S. and contributed to data-driven news initiatives. Nada's undergraduate internship experience includes international development policy at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), foreign affairs research at the Wilson Center, civil rights advocacy at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and a summer on Capitol Hill. This past summer, Nada worked as an graduate intern with the Social Safety Nets Global Solutions Group at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. She is passionate about evidence-based policy and increasing representation of Muslim Americans in policy and media. She is a recipient of the Boston University Departmental Prize in Economics and was a Truman Scholarship finalist. Having spent time in Egypt, Nada is fluent in Arabic and proficient in French. In her free time, she enjoys running, playing tennis, making art, and contributing to various media outlets as a freelance writer.

From Groton, Massachusetts, Stephen graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2019 with undergraduate degrees in international studies, Chinese, and French. Stephen studied abroad at Peking University and the University of Strasbourg, focusing on language acquisition and regional security perspectives. He also interned at the U.S. Mission to NATO, supporting the U.S. Department of State lead negotiator in preparing the 2018 Brussels Joint Summit Declaration. Stephen earned his commission as an Air Force Intelligence Officer in 2019 and later served at the Intelligence Directorate for U.S. European Command Headquarters as well as the 612 Air Operations Center. He is a four-year active duty veteran and seeks to transition from Defense Intelligence to a Foreign Service career enabling diplomatic engagements and security cooperation. His academic areas of interest include European regional security, gray zone warfare, and policy approaches for regional conflict prevention and resolution. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, yoga, weightlifting, and board games.

Colton hails from Mount Carmel, Tennessee, and is a recent graduate of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he also earned certificates in American Studies and History and the Practice of Diplomacy. In 2023, Colton interned at the Tennessee Justice Center, supported by the Pace Center’s Princeton Internships in Civic Service (PICS) program, where he worked directly with poor and working clients to help them gain access to Medicaid coverage. Prior to that, Colton spent his gap year in 2021 working as a Legislative Correspondent for U.S. Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger, where he managed the environmental policy portfolio and worked on various others including health and labor policy. He was also a 2020 John C. Bogle Fellow and worked as an Intern Coordinator for a U.S. House campaign, promoting youth engagement in the electoral process. Colton spent fall 2022 studying European politics at University College London. His research experience includes his Junior Paper, “Working-Class Representation in Congress,” which analyzed the consequences of working-class underrepresentation in Congress, and his senior thesis, which focused on the barriers that disproportionately prevent workers from running for office. At Princeton, Colton was a Head Fellow for the Scholars Institute Fellows Program. He also served as a Community Living Advisor for Rockefeller College and Member of the Department of Politics Undergraduate Committee.

Sylvia graduated from College of Charleston in 2018 with a double major in religious studies and international studies, with a focus on the Middle East. While at College of Charleston, Sylvia began studying Arabic and studied abroad for a semester in Rabat, Morocco. Shortly after graduating, Sylvia moved to Amman, Jordan, with hopes to continue studying Arabic and gain further work experience with refugee communities. After interning and volunteering with several organizations in the United States that serve refugees and immigrants, she was drawn to move beyond her own borders and explore migration and displacement from a broader global perspective since the majority of displaced people find themselves in countries bordering their own, not the United States. In Jordan, Sylvia enrolled in an intensive Arabic language course and soon after began volunteering with UNICEF Jordan Country Office with the Adolescent and Youth Development Section where she progressed to become an intern, consultant, and lastly, program associate. In this position, she managed the implementation of UNICEF's Adolescent and Youth programming in Jordan's major Syrian refugee camps. This summer, Sylvia worked as a short term advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team in London.