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Ashley Stracke MPP '23

#PolicyProfile: Ashley Stracke MPP ’23

“When I was a kid, I had a front-row seat to see how many families who had someone with special needs ended up struggling and how the government…

Ashley Stracke MPP '23

Mayu Takeuchi '23

#PolicyProfile: Mayu Takeuchi ’23

“I'd never been in student government before Princeton, but Undergraduate Student Government has been a really defining part of my experience…

Mayu Takeuchi '23

#PolicyProfile: Kanishkh Kanodia '23

“Ever since I picked up a newspaper for the first time, I was interested in reading the foreign affairs section or the world section, and that made…

#PolicyProfile: Ryan Sasse MPA '23

“I was in high school in South Florida when I first became involved in political advocacy, specifically after Proposition 8 was passed in California…

#PolicyProfile: Inderjeet Singh MPP '23

“My father was the first literate person in the family, and when I went to college in Delhi, that was still uncommon in our family at that time. My…

#PolicyProfile: Olesya Shmagun MPP '23

“I was born and raised in Russia and was lucky to be born during a short democratic period. From an early age, I heard how important democratic…

#PolicyProfile: Kate Johnston MPP '23

“After receiving my graduate degree from King's College London, I traveled through the Middle East, from Istanbul through Turkey, Syria, Jordan, the…

#PolicyProfile: Umer Siddique MPP '23

“My fascination with diplomacy stems from growing up at a time when many global events were taking place all around me. Perhaps that led to my desire…

Madison Mellinger pictured while traveling

#PolicyProfile: Madison Mellinger '23

“Having a mother who completed college online while I was in middle school greatly impacted how I view the immense value of education and the on…

Madison Mellinger pictured while traveling

#PolicyProfile: Will Feeney MPP '23

"As a child, I loved trains and found it frustrating that MARTA — the mass transit system in Atlanta — didn't come to my house. As I got older and…

Yamini Sarangi MPP '23 outside of SPIA

#PolicyProfile: Yamini Sarangi MPP '23

“I spent the initial nine years of my career working in some of the most remote tribal-dominated areas in the state of Odisha in India. My work was…

Yamini Sarangi MPP '23 outside of SPIA

#PolicyProfile: Mikala Parnell '23

“I lived in the South most of my life, often in suburban and predominantly white communities, and I was very aware of the space that I was in. I was…

Ali Alleile MPP ’23

#PolicyProfile: Ali Alleile MPP ’23

I grew up in the Deir Ezzor province in Northeastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. We didn’t expect the Syrian civil war in 2011. I remember the…

Ali Alleile MPP ’23

Joshua Coan '24

February 17, 2023

#PolicyProfile: Joshua Coan ’24

I took a gap year after high school and had the chance to play semi-pro volleyball in the Netherlands for a few months. Volleyball is a big part of…

Joshua Coan '24

Kelley T. Jones Ph.D. Candidate

February 13, 2023

#PolicyProfile: Kelley T. Jones Ph.D. Candidate

"I’m active-duty military, and I’ve been in the @USNavy for more than 20 years. By trade, I’m known as a ship driver, which is a Surface Warfare…

Kelley T. Jones Ph.D. Candidate

Adam Sigelman MPP ’23

February 03, 2023

#PolicyProfile: Adam Sigelman MPP ’23

“When I first graduated from college, I was a consultant in the private sector for a few years. I enjoyed the work and thought it was interesting…

Adam Sigelman MPP ’23

January 20, 2023

#PolicyProfile: Samuel Lyman MPP ’23

“I grew up watching ‘The West Wing,’ where Rob Lowe plays a White House speechwriter named Sam Seaborn. His character is what first piqued my…

Nicholas Lim before a Princeton swim meet.

January 13, 2023

#PolicyProfile: Nicholas Lim ’24

“I’m originally from Hong Kong, and that’s where I was during the COVID-19 pandemic. I became really interested in the social dynamics of the…

Nicholas Lim before a Princeton swim meet.

Joe Shipley

December 10, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Joe Shipley MPA ’26

“Both of my parents are journalists, and I learned a lot from the way that they tried to put truth and objectivity ahead of their own personal…

Joe Shipley

Brent Efron pictured outside of SPIA.

November 19, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Brent Efron MPA ’24

“I grew up in a reform Jewish community outside of Boston, and one thing we learned from a very young age in reform Hebrew school is something called…

Brent Efron pictured outside of SPIA.

November 12, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Bryson Rose MPP ’23

"In 2017, I went to Haiti and witnessed significant infrastructure challenges from the earthquake and from hurricanes. They're already a country that…

Noah Bardash pictured on political campaign.

November 04, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Noah Bardash MPA ’24

"In the aftermath of the 2016 election, I took a hard look at what I was doing with my time and where I saw my best avenues for making change. I…

Noah Bardash pictured on political campaign.

Christian Pollard

October 28, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Christian Pollard ’23

“I grew up in rural Alabama on a cattle ranch in a town of, at the time, 409 people. Living in a rural area, it's virtually impossible to access…

Christian Pollard

Uma Menon standing behind a SPIA banner.

October 16, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Uma Menon ’24

“My first book, “Hands for Language,” was about my experience as a daughter of immigrants growing up in America and my identity as a woman of color…

Uma Menon standing behind a SPIA banner.

October 08, 2022

#PolicyProfile: Austin Edwards MPP ’23

“My parents instilled in me the value of giving back to the community, not just in our home but also through our church. I was born in Trenton and…