Student Spotlights

IR senior Lily Liu is minoring in economics and pursuing a coterm in Sustainability Science and Practice. This year, Lily is interning at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, furthering her IR honors thesis research, and reflecting…

IR sophomore and Human Right minor Saray Bedoya discusses her time as a community service learning coordinator for the class HUMRTS 108: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border. She also talks about…

Kelsey Carido is a junior, majoring in International Relations with a human rights minor. Kelsey took this quarter off to work in D.C. as an intern at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kelsey spoke with us about her experience applying her…

Read junior Deborah Jantz’s reflections on growing up abroad, choosing IR, and interning at the Africa Regional Media Hub at the U.S. Department of State.  

“Over the course of my 20 years, I’ve lived about 9.5 years overseas in…

Gabby Crooks is a sophomore majoring in International Relations, with interests in human rights and law. Gabby discusses how her experience as an IR major, ASSU Senator, and community advocate have prepared her for a career in human rights law.…