Safa al-Saeedi is a PhD candidate in political science at Northwestern University. Her research has been supported by the National Foundation of Science, the American Political Science Association, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Northwestern Graduate School, among others. She received her BA, with distinction, from Duke University and her MA from Northwestern University’s Political Science Department.

Nejla Asimovic is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University. From Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nejla received her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where she studied World Politics and Mathematics.

Mariana Carvalho is a PhD candidate in Political Science at University of California, San Diego. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Mariana obtained her undergraduate degree from Fundação Getulio Vargas, where she also obtained a Master’s in Public Administration.

Kiela Crabtree is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Kiela has been a visiting researcher at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) and her work has also been supported by the Center for Political Studies. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Kiela received her B.A. in Politics from Sewanee: The University of the South.

Nandini Dey is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she earned her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science from the University of Delhi, India, and a Master of Science in History from the University of Edinburgh, UK. She also has experience in academic publishing, having worked as an editor for history, religion, and philosophy books at Oxford University Press in New Delhi, India. Nandini was a member of the first class of the APSA Public Scholarship Program in 2019.

Seo Nyeong Holly Jo is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Seo Nyeong received her M.A. in political science and international relations from Korea University, Seoul in 2015, and her B.A. in political science from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN in 2011.

Devin Judge-Lord is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He manages two political science research labs and has taught Public Policy and Computational Social Science.

Daegyeong (“D.G.”) Kim is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, San Diego. D.G. received his undergraduate from Cornell University.

Nicholas Kuipers is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, studying comparative politics. Nicholas’ research has been supported by the Institute for International Studies, the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG), and the Weiss Family Fund. He is also a research associate at the Center on the Politics of Development. A graduate of Oberlin College, he worked in Jakarta before graduate school at Saiful Mujani Research & Consulting, a political consultancy specializing in public opinion surveys. Nicholas also received a Fulbright grant to Indonesia in 2014-2015.

Rithika Kumar is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is generously supported by the APSA Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Judith Rodin Fellowship, Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and Fox Leadership Institute. Prior to starting at Penn, Rithika was a Research Associate at IDFC Institute, a think-tank in Mumbai, India where she worked on political economy issues related to state capacity and electoral politics. She has additional experience with conducting fieldwork in Bihar, Orissa and Rajasthan. She holds a Master’s in Economics from Mumbai University and a Bachelor’s in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

Zeren Li is a PhD Candidate of Political Science at Duke University. Before joining Duke, he obtained a MPhil from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and a LLB from Fudan University. His research has been funded by institutions including Google Cloud Platform, the Chiang Ching- Kuo Foundation, and other research grants.

Andrew Marshall is a comparative government PhD candidate in Georgetown University’s Department of Government. Andrew has earned multiple competitive research and training grants, including the U.S. Education Department’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship and the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship for advanced Kiswahili study. Hailing from Phillips, Wisconsin, he received a BA in international affairs and history from Marquette University and an MA in international affairs from American University and served as a Jesuit Volunteer in Tanzania. More information on his work is available on his website.

Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before UCLA, he completed a master’s in International Policy Studies at Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA in International Relations at El Colegio de Mexico. His professional experience includes the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change of Mexico as well as external consultancy work for USAID and the United Nations Development Program in Mexico.

Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government with a secondary field in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nwakanma worked as an Urban Education Fellow and Vice-HBO Translator in New York City. She received her B.A in International Studies-Economics with a secondary field in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego in 2014.

Andra Pascu-Lindner is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her dissertation research is generously supported by the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, as well as funding from the Social Sciences Research Institute and the Doerr Institute at Rice University. Originally from Romania, Andra received her BA degree in International Politics and Economics, with a Spanish minor, from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. She studied abroad at Sciences Po Paris, in the French-language political science program. Outside of academia, she has worked as a policy analyst for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as a consular assistant to the Romanian Honorary Consulate to Houston.

Estefania Castañeda Pérez is doctoral candidate at the UCLA Department of Political Science. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Castañeda Pérez has a master’s degree in political science from UCLA, and a bachelor’s degree in political science with an honors minor in interdisciplinary studies from San Diego State University.

Andrew Podob is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University with concentrations in political psychology and American politics. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2015. His degree was received cum laude and he was selected by his department to be the graduation student speaker.

Alauna Safarpour is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Alauna is currently a public opinion polling fellow at The Washington Post. Alauna obtained her B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2013. She obtained a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from Duke University in 2014, a Masters in Political Science from American University in 2015, and a Masters in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2019. Alauna was also a 2019 participant in the Zürich Summer School for Women in Political Methodology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland (UZH).

Christine Marie Slaughter is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to UCLA, she graduated with a BA in Political Science and Comparative Women’s Studies from Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia.

Romelia M. Solano is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame, a Joseph L. Gaia Distinguished Fellow in the Institute for Latino Studies, and a 2015 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Fellow. She holds a B.A. in political science and Latino Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Yu-Hsien Sung is a PhD student in political science and a master’s student in applied statistics at the University of South Carolina. She holds a BA and an MA in Political Science from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

John Ternovski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School at the Student Social Support R&D Lab, a lab specializing in large-scale field experiments in education. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Analytics at the Analyst Institute, a company that designed, implemented, and analyzed large-scale field experiments for a variety of major non-profits and campaigns. He has also worked as a freelance data and analytics consultant. He holds an MA in Statistics from Yale, an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from Oxford University, and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Thuy Anh Tran is completing her PhD at CUNY Graduate Center.