Maksimas Milta is a master’s student in the European and Russian Studies Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He originally hails from Lithuania. At Yale, he studies the role of higher education in combating despotism and protecting…
Ieva Ilves is a cybersecurity expert and diplomat who serves as a digital policy advisor to Latvian President Egils Levits. She was the First Lady of Estonia during the presidency of her husband, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who served until 2016.
Since 2007, Sherrod Brown has served as the United States Senator from Ohio. From 1994-2007, he was the U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 13th District, and from 1983-1991, he served as Ohio’s secretary of state. He is a member of the…
Matthieu Aikins is a journalist and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine who has been reporting on the ground from Afghanistan since 2008. In his 2022 book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan…
Anastasiia Pereverten is a Ukrainian student activist who is currently an exchange student at the University of Wyoming in the UGRAD program. She is the only student from Ukraine at UW, and when Russia invaded Ukraine, she began to advocate…
Dickson Omondi is the National Democratic Institute’s regional director for Southern and East Africa. He has over 20 years of experience in political party strengthening, legislative development, advancing electoral integrity, and civil society development work. His experience at NDI has involved long-term and short-term assignments to over 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein was Jordan’s ambassador to the United States from 2007-2010, and Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations from 2010-2014. He then served
as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014-2018. Currently, he is a Perry World House Professor of Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Rauch ‘82 was a contributor to the Yale Political Monthly during his time at Yale and was a member of the Yale Daily News Editorial Board. Rauch has since worked as an author, journalist, and political commentator, during which time he has advocated strongly for issues including same-sex marriage and offered insightful analysis about the state of American democracy. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor of National Journal and The Atlantic.
