2024 Summer Fellows

The 2024 cohort of Summer Fellows includes 18 students involved in research projects in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Georgia, Germany, Kenya, Pakistan, and Tanzania. Learn more about these brilliant students below.

Jimmy Bach (’26) is a Data Science and Public Health double major working with Community Health Partners and the Ignite Global Health Lab on a project in Narok, Kenya with Dr. Julius Nyerere Odhiambo and a separate project with Ignite in Naivasha, Kenya with Dr. Scott Ickes. Connect with him on LinkedIn. 

 

 

Jed Burke ('25) is a Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies and International Relations double major working with the International and Political Affairs in the Caucasus research lab in Tbilisi, Georgia with Dr. Dan Maliniak. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

 

 

Natalia Freden (‘25) is a Public Policy and History major working with the American Bosnian Collaboration project in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with Dr. Pickering. Connect with her on LinkedIn.  

 

 

 

Brady Garrett ('26) is an International Relations and Finance double major working with Dr. Sritharan and Dr. Rudling to monitor commitments to ethnic communities in Colombia in relation to demining. Connect with him on LinkedIn. 

 

 

 

Samuel Grove ('25) is an International Relations major working on the American Bosnian Collaboration project research team in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with Dr. Paula Pickering. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

 

 

 

Devangi Kanyal (‘25) is an Economics and Computational and Applied Mathematics and Statistics major working with BFA Global in Nairobi, Kenya. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

  

 

 

Brenna Keam (’25) is a Neuroscience major and Public Health minor working with the Ignite Global Health Lab on two projects in Narok, Kenya and Naivasha, Kenya with Dr. Julius Nyerere Odhiambo and Dr. Scott Ickes. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

 

 

Ian Kung (‘25) is Computational and Applied Mathematics and Statistics major and Supply Chain Analytics minor working with the Digital Inclusion and Governance Lab run by Dr. Phil Roessler and Dr. Shreya Bhattacharya and Innovations for Poverty Action in Tanzania. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

 

 

Rija Masroor (‘24) is a Quantitative Biochemistry major with a minor in Linguistics working with the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

Tomasina Pearman (‘27) is a Freshman and Monroe Scholar working with Dr. Sritharan and Dr. Rudling on a project related to monitoring commitments to ethnic communities in Colombia in relation to demining.

 

Vitaliy Romanenko (‘27) is working with the Georgian Strategic Analysis Center and the International and Political Affairs of the Caucasus in Tbilisi, Georgia with Dr. Dan Maliniak. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

 

 

Carina Shalkivski (’25) is an International Relations major and European Studies minor working with the Georgian Strategic Analysis Center and the International and Political Affairs of the Caucasus in Tbilisi, Georgia with Dr. Dan Maliniak. Connect with her on LinkedIn. 

 

 

 

Myra Simbulan (‘25) is a Government and Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Studies major working with Amnesty International in Washington, D.C. focusing on Government Relations and Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

 

 

Sofia Simonian (‘26) is a International Relations and Russian/Post-Soviet Studies major working with the Georgian Strategic Analysis Center and the International and Political Affairs of the Caucasus in Tbilisi, Georgia with Dr. Dan Maliniak. Connect with her on LinkedIn. 

 

 

Adrianne Sugden (’25) is a Government and Economics major working with the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) in Lahore, Pakistan with Dr. Ammar Malik. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

 

 

 

Ally Swindell (’25) is an International Relations major and History minor working with U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

 

 

 

Clara Whitney (‘25) is a Film and Media Studies major who is minoring in Creative Writing. She is working with Dr. Adriana Rudling and Dr. Sritharan on a project related to monitoring commitments to ethnic communities in Colombia in relation to demining. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

 

 

 

Beniyam Zelalem (‘26) is an Economics and Business Supply Chain Analytics major working with BFA Global in Nairobi, Kenya. Connect with him on LinkedIn.