Natalia Kaliada is Founding Co-Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre, writer, diplomat, human rights campaigner and producer. She is co-author together with Nicolai Khalezin of internationally-acclaimed plays including Generation Jeans, … FULL BIO
Rabbi Rachel Gartner has served as the Director for Jewish Life at Georgetown University since 2011. She is the author of numerous opinion pieces appearing in The Huffington Post, The Hill, … FULL BIO
Suhair Khan leads Initiatives and Partnerships at the Google Arts & Culture in various countries globally. Currently based in London, she was previously focused on Emerging Markets products based out of Singapore, … FULL BIO
Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. … FULL BIO
Within the Culture and Politics program in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Aly Panjwani studies the role of the arts in political resistance, specifically examining Islamophobic narrative setting in U.S. … FULL BIO
Julia (JT) Tvardovskaya is in her second year of a dual-degree program (MBA/Master of Science in Foreign Service) at Georgetown University. Working at the Lab as the Operations Associate has allowed JT to follow all three of her passions, … FULL BIO
Mary Sturgis is a first-year Masters of Science in Foreign Service student at Georgetown University, where she focuses on cultural diplomacy, media and the press, and U.S. foreign policy in Spanish, … FULL BIO
Karishma Bhagani is a fifth-generation Kenyan of Indian descent, born and bred in Mombasa. Her ancestors migrated because of the British Raj, on dhows from Gujarat to East Africa, to seek greener pastures. … FULL BIO
Princess Rose Zinzi Mhlongo was born in Emalahleni Mpumalanga, South Africa. She is the third of four children raised by her mother (a professional nurse) and father (a teacher) in a small mining town. … FULL BIO
Ada Mukhina was born in what is known today as St. Petersburg, Russia, at a time when the city was Leningrad, USSR. Her family has been living in St. Petersburg for three generations, … FULL BIO