Rebecca is from Annandale, Virginia. After graduating from Yale in 2020 with a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, she worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a data scientist and had a formative experience deploying to recovery efforts from Hurricane Ida. She transitioned into climate work, including as Deputy Director for Sustainability at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Rebecca is passionate about making public institutions transparent and accountable.

Born and raised in San Diego, Rachael received her bachelor’s degree in physics and a minor in astronomy from the University of Virginia. Upon graduation, she began a career in government service, including a three-year post abroad in England as a staff officer in support of the Department of Defense and most recently as an intelligence analyst within the Department of the Treasury. Involving the intersection of emerging technology and financial intelligence to improving indicators and warning intelligence sharing within convention warfare, her career has been rewarding, challenging, and never without surprises. If you’re looking to find her, the best places to look would be pop punk concerts (the sadder, the better), national parks (especially the ones with caves), or art museums (art deco and impressionism preferred).

Frances graduated from Washington University with a B.A. in sociology in 2019. Since, she has worked in policy research at Decriminalize Sex Work, people operations, and talent acquisition at Propel, a government-tech company focused on improving the social safety net in the United States, and social impact communications at Nespresso USA. Her passion for understanding social systems and building resource equity within them has been a primary motivator throughout her career. While living in St. Louis, she interned for Arch City Defenders, working to combat the criminalization of poverty through the abolition of the city's cash bail system. She was a founding member of Cultivating Connections, a club at Washington University that partnered with the International Institute's Global Farms Program to build urban farms for immigrant communities in North St. Louis. In Brooklyn, she volunteered as a rape and domestic violence crisis advocate for survivors receiving care in the emergency department. She spent the summer before SPIA wrapping up work and volunteering and backpacking with her sister. This past summer, she worked as a research assistant at The Lab @ DC in Washington. Upon graduation from SPIA, Frances hopes to work on increasing financial resource access for low-income Americans, making our social safety net more efficient, effective, and human-centered.

Possessing a long-standing commitment to public service, Delanya has driven social impact and development initiatives across the globe. Through her work at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, Delanya supported engagements in international development focusing on entrepreneurship, maternal health, agri-finance, climate, energy, international education, and accountability. While completing her undergraduate studies at Harvard, Delanya championed public service initiatives engaging K-12 students in roles with Project Rousseau, Harvard’s Griffin Financial Aid Office, and the City of Birmingham’s Office of Innovation and Economic Opportunity. Notably at the City of Birmingham’s Office of Innovation and Economic Opportunity, Delanya supported the realization of the Birmingham Promise, creating funded pathways to in-state colleges and apprenticeships for over 20,000 Birmingham City School students. She has continued her contribution to impactful education initiatives as a strategy consultant at Crimson Education, supporting students from a wide range of backgrounds and lived experiences. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Delanya holds a bachelor's degree in government, minoring in philosophy with a citation in Spanish. She has received numerous recognitions, namely, the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship where she will support the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. As an MPA candidate at Princeton SPIA, Delanya has a continuing interest in exploring how transitional justice tools can address instances of historical injustice in the global community.

Michiko majored in law and politics with a concentration on public law at University of Tokyo from 2017-2021. Upon graduation, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and worked in the Status of U.S. Forces Agreement Division for two years. For her MPA internship, Michiko worked as a research intern at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.