Ben joins Princeton after serving as a Constituent Services and Outreach Representative for Congressman Andy Kim where he organized outreach events to connect communities in New Jersey to government resources and advocated on behalf of constituents to federal agencies on matters pertaining to immigration, housing, and education. Ben grew up in Marlboro, New Jersey, then attended the University of Delaware where he studied international relations concentrating on the Middle East. After interning for U.S. Senator Chris Coons in Delaware, Ben served as Deputy Director for the Ocean County Democrats where he organized campaigns for local office. Ben has volunteered on several political campaigns and for the Monmouth County Community Emergency Response Team to help his community in the event of a natural disaster. This summer, Ben was a Housing Fellow for the Center for Public Enterprise, a nonprofit think tank that offers research and strategy for public officials to expand the capacity of government in the housing and energy finance sectors. He researched the impacts of budget cuts on federally subsidized multifamily housing, cost factors influencing affordable development, and state regulation of public housing authorities. Ben collaborated with municipal housing finance agencies to increase their mixed-income housing supply by modeling how innovative public finance products could facilitate affordable housing in challenging areas.

Ana Maria was borned and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Previously, Ana Maria worked at an international social consultancy firm called Instiglio, providing technical support to governments, multilateral agencies, philanthropies, among others in the design and implementation of results-based financing programs in low-and middle-income countries. She is committed to making social public spending more effective and impactful to transform the lives of the most vulnerable populations. For the last three years, Ana Maria's interest in migration issues developed as a consequence of being involved in different projects promoting the socioeconomic integration of Venezuelan migrants in Latin America. Ana Maria holds an B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Universidad de los Andes. At Princeton, she hopes to acquire a deeper understanding on how to implement evidence-based public policies and solutions. In her free time, Ana loves to dance to any latin rhythms, read romance books, travel around the world, and spend time with family and friends.

Born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Hana holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, where she majored in political science and psychology. Most recently, she worked as a data analyst at the United Nations Development Programme in Sri Lanka and the Office of the U.N. Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, on initiatives to consolidate and analyze risk indicators to inform strategic and programming priorities on social cohesion and peacebuilding. Understanding and addressing the proliferation of hate speech and misinformation has been a recurrent focus in her professional career to date. At Princeton, Hana plans to build skills relevant to the design and evaluation of evidence-based and contextualized approaches to building sustainable peace. Outside of work and the classroom, she enjoys reading (particularly mysteries), playing board games, singing, and spending time with her cat, Moxie.

Born and raised in the Midwest, Conway moved to Washington, D.C., for college and lived there for over a decade until coming to Princeton. Conway worked for the federal government for seven years, serving as a nonpartisan policy analyst for a bipartisan board of political appointees that advise federal policymakers on the social insurance and means-tested programs administered by the Social Security Administration that provide retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. After Princeton, Conway hopes to return to public service and use his graduate degree to improve people’s access to federal programs that support determinants of well-being like housing, health, and education. Conway graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University, where his senior thesis, which measured multidimensional poverty in the United States by nativity status, received special honors and earned him a research assistantship with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance. In his free time, Conway enjoys documentaries, Pilates, and hiking, and has served as a volunteer tax preparer.

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.