Washington, District of Columbia, United States
In May 2026, I became the first in my family to graduate from a four-year university, with not one degree, but two. As a first-generation Latina, I earned dual degrees in Data Science and International Affairs & Political Science from George Washington University. I chose this combination because the most pressing global challenges, governance, security, inequality, need people who can both understand the politics and interrogate the data. Over the past four years, I studied abroad in South Korea, worked across cultures in Costa Rica, served as a Research Fellow with the Taiwan Education and Research Program, held several leadership positions, and developed skills in Python, R, SQL, and Tableau to tell stories through data that support real policy decisions, all while working part-time jobs that allowed me to gain firsthand experience with face-to-face customer interactions. This summer I am interning with the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and I am excited to be just getting started and to see what’s ahead.
- Conduct independent research under faculty mentorship, analyzing Taiwan’s diplomatic strategy in Latin America through comparative policy and regional data - Analyze government documents, academic literature, and regional datasets to produce weekly policy briefs for a Foreign Policy-focused audience - Develop a data-driven research extension exploring the feasibility of predictive modeling to estimate the likelihood of diplomatic recognition shifts