Lynn was born in Korea, spent her childhood in China and studied in the U.S. from middle school. Having been interested in security issues in Northeast Asia for over a decade, she studied international politics and Asia studies as an undergraduate and conducted independent research on China's memory of the Korean War and North Korea's domestic discourse on nuclear weapons. Upon graduation, she won a full scholarship to pursue a master's degree in China studies in the Yenching Academy at Peking University in Beijing. Her thesis analyzed China's contemporary identity in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. At Princeton, she continues to research nuclear nonproliferation issues in China and North Korea. In addition to her academic work, she worked as a research intern for Korea studies at the Council of Foreign Relations and at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center. In her leisure time, Lynn enjoys playing squash and visiting art galleries.

Jieyi is a Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) program at SPIA. She earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Sun Yat-sen University but was curious about environmental and energy issues. Driven by her curiosity, she obtained a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University studying environmental and energy policy and a master’s degree in environmental science from Yale University focusing on the impacts of air pollution on different groups of people. She also worked as a research assistant at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C., conducting research related to China’s emissions trading system and applications of satellite data. At Princeton, she hopes to further investigate and develop solutions to improve both the environment and human wellbeing in the developing world.

Beichen is a second-year Ph.D. student in the STEP cluster, co-advised by Prof. Michael Oppenheimer and Prof. Denise Mauzerall. He models for large-scale climate challenges using computation, econometrics, and Earth sciences. Potential areas of application include energy, water, and agriculture, which he respectively studied at MIT, UC San Diego, and Purdue. Outside research, he loves visual arts, cross-cultural communication, and nontraditional biography. Feel free to stay tuned at his personal website: https://beichenlyu.com.

Prior to attending Princeton, Jack graduated with a master's degree in environmental science from Yale School of the Environment. His master's thesis examines the Chilean Constitutional Convention of 2022, considers its environmental justice implications, and addresses the rejection of the proposed constitution. Jack graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science from Furman University, where he majored in sustainability science and Spanish language and literature, with a minor in Latin American and LatinX studies. His undergraduate thesis maps ecosystem services geographically and examines policy mechanisms that contribute to differing levels of ecosystem service provisioning. He has additionally earned an Associate of Arts from Greenville Technical College. At Princeton, Jack will continue to research environmental justice policy and compare policies from various international contexts.

Malini is a Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) program at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. Malini grew up in Frederick, Maryland, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering from Columbia University. Prior to Princeton, Malini was based in San Francisco, where she was a senior consultant at Ramboll, specializing in air quality modeling, climate change mitigation, and human health risk assessment. Her research is focused on the deep decarbonization of the power sector in India, and she uses the tools of power system modeling and air quality modeling to understand the air-climate-health tradeoffs of electricity policy choices.