Molly Goldstein is a rising junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, double majoring in Government and Near Eastern Studies and minoring in dance.

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is a PhD student in the Department of Government. He studies comparative politics and international relations with a focus on political violence, insurgency, authoritarianism, and regime change, exploring dynamics of civil conflict and post-war transitions.

Dayra Lascano is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government at Cornell University, specializing in International Relations with a minor focus on Comparative Politics.

Yulin Li is a student in the MA Historic Preservation Planning program. Her research focuses on the value of informal practice as a participator in urban development and collective memory and heritage for people’s everyday life.

Lois Matthew is a PhD student in the Department of Government, specializing in comparative politics, with a minor in international relations and methods.

Patrick J. Mehler is an M.S. candidate in Industrial and Labor Relations. He graduated with a B.S. with Honors in 2023.

Avishai Melamed is a PhD Student at Cornell University’s Department of Government in the International Relations subfield. He has published in the Journal of Space Safety Engineering and is a graduate fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute.

André Nascimento is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Studies. His work examines how literature becomes an operative peacebuilding/peacekeeping instrument in times of armed conflicts, guerrilla warfare, or insurrections in Latin American contexts.

Salvador Ernesto Pineda is a second-year MBA student at Cornell University and holds an MA In Latin American Studies from Georgetown University.

Ainav Rabinowitz was a Laidlaw Scholar and the Founder of the publication Women of MENA, Cornell’s premiere gender studies publication that focused on