This past summer, I interned at the State Department for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Office of South and Central Asia. I served as the main policy officer for three countries — Bhutan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Turkmenistan, which were countries that I didn't know too much about before starting the internship. I performed a variety of activities, such as attending meetings with policy leaders who were working on issues there, putting together issue papers and daily action reports, looking at funding proposals, and working on edits for ambassadors’ speeches.

I'd be interested in pursuing a career related to that in some way. I'm also considering law school to work in human rights law. My general interests are in migration and human rights. I'm involved in some Advocacy organizations, such as the @ORLPrinceton Asylum Project and Religion and Resettlement Project. For the RRP, I’m an oral historian and interview refugees currently living in America to learn about their stories, compiling a curriculum and a database to understand those experiences better. I've heard a lot of really interesting stories from people with various identities and various reasons for migrating. Even in my writing, I'm really interested in exploring migration. It’s been a great outlet for me.”