Elizabeth Friesen

Elizabeth is from Bellingham, Washington, and studied economics and political science at Middlebury College. In 2021, Elizabeth moved to Haiti to coordinate a research project on social networks and small‐scale corruption in the Haitian Ministries, a collaboration between the University of Chicago and the Inter-American Development Bank. She later became a Reporting Officer within the United Nations’ Political Mission in Haiti, where she managed, analyzed, and published data on gang‐related human rights abuses. The summer after her first year at Princeton, Elizabeth interned at World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group in Washington, D.C. and worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank’s Institutional Capacity of the State (ICS) division. She aspires to be a development practitioner working at the intersection of operations and analysis, with a focus on helping weak states strengthen their social contracts and combat crime, corruption, and violence.