Current MPA Students

Allyson is from Lake Forest, California, and graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Public Health and a minor in Public Policy. Raised in an immigrant household, Allyson is passionate about creating solutions to health care challenges marginalized communities face. At an early age, Allyson’s father was diagnosed with a chronic health condition that required frequent interactions with the healthcare system; she became acutely aware of the high cost of healthcare and its disproportionate impact on BIPOC and low-income families. These experiences pushed her to explore health policy and its impact on the Latinx community as a student, leading her to participate in the Cal-in-Sacramento Fellowship and the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship. Upon graduation, she served as a Legislative Analyst at the California Health and Human Services Agency where she sought to advance policy that addresses the root causes of health inequality. After Princeton, she hopes to work in government promoting Latinx healthcare accessibility. In her free time, Allyson is an amateur boxer, runner, and reality TV enthusiast.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Karl is excited to return to the Garden State after stints in Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. Karl graduated from Vanderbilt University with a double major in Economics and Public Policy Studies. While in school, he spent over a year exploring local government as an intern in the Nashville Finance Department. After graduation, Karl worked as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for three years as a member of the Stress Testing section within the Division of Supervision and Regulation. Here, he supported the Stress Testing program through his preparation of briefing materials and his work toward improving model accuracy in the face of changing accounting standards. Both at Vanderbilt and the Federal Reserve, Karl has demonstrated his passion for economics and personal finance education through his leadership of volunteer organizations that strive to make these topics more accessible to high school students. At Princeton, Karl is looking forward to honing his understanding of public finance and applying that understanding to a range of policy areas. Outside of the classroom, he plans to continue his quest to find the perfect sandwich, a quest hopefully made easier by New Jersey's famed density of delis and diners.

Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Tunç holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Boğaziçi University where he served as the President of the Undergraduate Student Council during his senior year. He spent his junior year of high school in Massachusetts with the U.S. State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange Program and completed his study abroad semester at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to Princeton, Tunç worked at Kale Group of Companies, one of Turkey’s largest industrial groups, supporting the company’s corporate, public, and international affairs along with coordinating Kale Foundation’s international initiatives, working directly with senior leadership. Before that he was at Koç Holding where he was tasked with a similar role. Tunç has volunteered for different causes including intercultural exchange and dialogue, environmental protection, and promotion of sustainable development goals. He returned to Turkey to complete his MPA internship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Istanbul. At Princeton, he hopes to further his understanding of the relationship between development, regime types, and foreign policy. Tunç is pursuing a joint MPA/MBA with the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is in residence at Stanford for the 2026 spring semester. 

Originally from India and the U.K., Nudhara is an incoming MPA at SPIA with a focus on economics and public policy. She was formerly Executive Coordinator of the Global Governance Innovation Network at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., and previously worked on the Sustainable Development Goals and Strategic Foresight with the United Nations Development Program. She has supported both Indian state welfare ministers in designing social inclusion programs at the grassroots, and the British Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in U.K.’s Parliament. Her interests primarily lie in reform and evolution of the multilateral system and how coalitions can be mobilized around change and accountability. In this vein, she served as Co-Chair of the U.N. Civil Society Conference in Support of the Summit of the Future. When she is not losing sleep over the future of multilateralism, you’ll find her cooking, playing tennis, or complaining about how mangos taste so much better back home in Chennai. After SPIA, she hopes to return to working on the future of the U.N. system, and helping it navigate new economic environments.