Alli C. Divine
“After spending a summer at the Woodrow Wilson School as part of the PPIA Junior Summer Institute, I became aware of how fantastic the program was and how supportive the faculty and administrators were. It was the only master’s program I applied to because I knew it was the best program. With a MPA degree I hope to apply to the Presidential Management Fellows Program to start a career in public service. This degree will make it possible for me to focus on the topic areas I like best and move seriously into the policy-making space.” (Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin)
Biography
Alli was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She attended Northwestern University where her studies focused on the Syrian conflict, the political economy of the Arab Gulf states, and Arabic. After graduating in 2016, she worked at Northwestern’s Qatar campus helping develop and improve programs to connect students between the sister campuses. After a year in Qatar, she joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a junior fellow in the Geoeconomics and Strategy Program in Washington, D.C. Alli returns to the Woodrow Wilson School after spending the summer of 2015 at the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute. This past summer, she interned at a local nonprofit in Beirut, Lebanon, doing conflict and migration research.