Chloë Bernadaux is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. She holds a B.A. in Social Science and an M.A. in International Security from Sciences Po Paris.

Seowoo Chung is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Korea University, Seoul.

Igor Kolesnikov is a Ph.D. candidate in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a BA in Political Science with a minor in Data Science from the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.  His research has been supported by the Berkeley Institute for International Studies, the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, the American Political Science Association, the Berkeley Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Institute for Humane Studies.

Sharik Laliwala is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Contemporary India from King’s College London and a B.B.A. (Economics and Finance track) from Ahmedabad University. His research has been supported by APSA’s Religion and Politics Section and NSF ACCESS computing allocations. At Berkeley, it has also been supported by the Global Democracy Commons Fellowship, a research fellowship from Global, International and Area Studies, and grants from the India Center and the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy. Before Berkeley, he worked as a researcher affiliated with institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Sciences Po, and the Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University.

Shanequewa Love is a PhD candidate in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She earned a B.A. in African American Studies from Loyola Marymount University. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Marcel Mejía – Taveras is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He holds an M.Sc. in Quantitative Analysis and Social Data Science from KU Leuven, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chile, an M.A. in International Affairs from Comillas Pontifical University, and a B.A. in Economics from the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC).

Dany Luz Carmona Niangar is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. Prior to Columbia, they received a BS in both Political Science and Sociology from the University of Houston. 

Moses O. Ogutu is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Syracuse University, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. Prior to his doctoral studies, Ogutu taught international trade, business, and government at African Leadership University in Rwanda. He also worked in the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, supporting international science-policy programs and cooperation. He holds an MPhil in Inclusive Innovation and an MA in International Relations from the University of Cape Town, where he was a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, and a BSc in Political Science from the University of Mauritius.

Zoey Jialu Xu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. In 2022, she received her B.S. in Joint Major Mathematics & Economics and B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from the University of California, San Diego.