Current MPA Students

Maya was raised in the Chicagoland area and Mumbai, India. She attended Harvard College and graduated with a joint concentration in History of Science and French, and a minor in Chemistry. She is passionate about education and worked as a peer tutor and with local low-income middle schoolers during college. After graduating, she worked as a language assistant in France and the French Caribbean for two years, teaching French students English, and American and Indian history. Maya is interested in education, socioeconomic inequality, and urban policy, and is especially passionate about exploring these policy areas through diplomacy. She is a 2025 Rangel Fellow and will work as a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State after her studies at SPIA. As part of the Rangel Fellowship, this summer, Maya worked in the House of Representatives on the international relations, defense, and urban policy portfolios of her member office.

Annie is from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Economics. After graduating in 2022, she worked in government relations and policy consulting, focusing on global health and trade policy across Latin America and the Asia-Pacific. Through public-private partnerships in regional economic fora, Annie led projects aimed at advancing women's economic empowerment, particularly access to sexual and reproductive health services and the recognition of unpaid caregiving in health systems. This past summer, she interned with the Clinton Health Access Initiative's Cambodia office on the Health Systems Strengthening team, supporting Cambodia's transition to sustainable domestic financing for NCDs. After Princeton, she hopes to pursue a career in global health diplomacy, advancing policies that promote health equity and strengthen health systems. In her free time, Annie enjoys grounding activities like sudoku and yoga, as well as getting lost in a good short story.

Jamie was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he learned an appreciation for public transport and jaywalking. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at the London School of Economics, completing a dissertation in the normative bases of redistributive tax law. After graduating, he taught middle school math in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood as a City Year AmeriCorps member. From there he joined Deloitte’s Energy, Resources, and Industrials practice, where he worked on a variety of decarbonization projects, on topics including hydrogen, environmentally responsible mining, and green steel. In search of meaning and direction, he left Deloitte and scoured the land for work in the energy transition sector. After a year as a small scale solar developer (while moonlighting as a research associate for the Carbon Tax Center on a project investigating nuclear power plant economics), Jamie elected to move to Princeton to submerge himself in the study of energy and environmental policy. He spent the summer volunteering on the historic schooner Pioneer, hosting dinner parties, and conducting hands-on research into the literary effects of urban placemaking.

Originally from San Francisco, Fiona received her B.A. at the University of Chicago, in Law, Letters, and Society, with a minor in Democracy Studies. At UChicago, she participated in research projects on American political violence with the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, and did work on comparative democratic backsliding with the Democratic Erosion Consortium. She was a 2023-24 James Gaither Junior Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where she did research in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program on the intersection of technology, trade, and democracy. Prior to SPIA, Fiona worked as an international trade specialist at McDermott Will and Emery. Fiona spent this past summer interning with the Office of Representative Leger Fernandez and the Democratic Women's Caucus in Washington, D.C. At Princeton, she hopes to examine the impact of changing U.S. trade and economic policy on international politics and democracy (and also hopes to camp, hike, and explore the Garden State!).

Born outside of Boston and raised in and around Washington, D.C., Evan graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in government and computer science, where he received the Breckenridge Research Fellowship to study AI and computational game theory. After graduation, Evan spent a year teaching English to primary students in Valencia, Spain, and leading hiking trips in Wyoming. He spent the three years prior to SPIA working on economics, trade, and technology issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. In this role, Evan has been cited in the media for his published research on a range of topics and he has organized a series of high-level economic security government dialogues on three continents. In his free time, he has also worked part-time coaching jumping and throwing events for a high school track and field team. This past summer, he road-tripped more than 5,000 miles round trip from Washington to Jasper National Park in Alberta for a backpacking expedition with friends. After completing his studies at SPIA, he hopes to leverage his technical skills to help mediate the impacts of advanced technologies on our societies and economies.