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Andrea de Sá is an undergraduate at the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She looks forward to completing certificate programs in Latin American Studies and Contemporary European Politics and Society. Ms. de Sá has studied abroad at Oxford University, where she completed independent work on the militant, secessionist minorities in the European Union, focusing on the Basque Country of Spain and France. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and studies French and Mandarin Chinese.
2010-2011 Fellows
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Zachary (Zach) Beecher, a member of the Class of 2013, hails from Randolph, New Jersey and is a Woodrow Wilson School major looking to focus on National Security Policy and specifically the United States military's development role in counterinsurgency operations. Over the summers, he has interned at CNN and in the U.S. Congress, while also traveling to Cambodia, Honduras, and Nicaragua with the Office of Religious Life to study the religious response to human rights crises. On campus, he is a cadet in ROTC and the Class of 2013. Additionally, he is working with the Pace Council for Civic Values to create a faith-based service initiative while also trying to launch another initiative with Dean Boden called, "Living Wear," aimed at creating greater awareness and availability about living wage products.
Brittany Cesarini is a senior in the Woodrow Wilson School pursuing certificates in African Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her interests lie in the interaction between religion and "development", particularly on issues of women's rights and sexual and reproductive health in Africa, where she has spent her last three summers and a semester abroad. Her current thesis research focuses on the role that religion plays in both perpetuating and breaking cycles of domestic violence in Tanzania. Following graduation, she hopes to return to live and work in Tanzania, a deeply religious country with incredibly friendly people, the beautiful Swahili language, and amazing beaches as perks. She became a Christian after coming to Princeton, and is now a member of Princeton Faith and Action. She is also an intern at the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and has been involved in various service projects and student activist campaigns on campus as well as in Africa.
Aaron Glasserman is a junior in the Near Eastern Studies Department pursuing a certificate in Chinese Language and Culture. At Princeton, he has most enjoyed classes in the Near Eastern Studies, East Asian Studies, Politics, and Religion Departments, including “Iran since the Revolution,” “Authoritarianism,” “Intellectual History of China,” and “Modern Islamic Political Thought.” Aaron spent the summer after freshman year studying Chinese with the Princeton in Beijing program and spent the summer after sophomore year studying Arabic in Jordan at the Qasid Institute. He is writing his fall junior paper on contemporary Uighur-state relations in Western China, and hopes to write his spring junior paper on Chinese Muslims’ portrayal of Islam in the late Ming dynasty.
Monica Greco is junior from Brooklyn, New York. She is a concentrator in the Classics Department and is receiving certificates from the Woodrow Wilson School and the Program in Near Eastern Studies. Her interests include humanitarian aid and development with a focus on the MENA region. Monica is editor for the Daily Princetonian’s Opinion section, an RCA and co-President of P-UNICEF.
William Herlands is a senior in the Electrical Engineering department studying computing and robotics. Prior to matriculating into college, he studied in a religious seminary in the northern mountains of Israel, developing a passion for Jewish law, philosophy, and history. At Princeton, he has pursued these passions by teaching classes on the philosophy of Jewish law in Princeton’s Center for Jewish Life and leading the Religious Life Council as a co-convener this past year. Working for a summer in India and South Africa, William developed a keen interest in the developing world and hopes to apply his study of engineering to develop innovative solutions for developing world issues.
Alison Lo is a junior in the Psychology department and doing a certificate in Values and Public Life. The focus of her work lies in the psychology of politics, and the intersection between ethics, religion and state law in forming a working democracy. A large part of her research takes place in her home country of Malaysia, a multi-racial Muslim country with a constitutional democracy. 
Born in London and raised in New York City, Conner Martin is a junior in the Woodrow Wilson School whose research interests include statecraft and international diplomacy. He has travelled in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and has just completed a semester abroad in Hong Kong, where he researched the role of nationalism in the South China Sea sovereignty disputes.
Sajda Ouachtouki, of New York City, is a Woodrow Wilson major and a certificate candidate in Near Eastern Studies, Arabic Language and Culture, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She was born in Morocco and is a native speaker of Arabic and Berber. Sajda is interested in religion's ability to inform solutions to women's human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa. For the past two summers, Sajda has studied Arabic at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco and has interned for the Islam and Civil Society Project at the Witherspoon Institute. Sajda is an active member of the Religious Life Council and previously served as vice-president of the Muslim Students Association. She is a SINSI scholar and hopes to pursue a career in the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues.
Kelly Reilly is a senior studying Media Theory and Aesthetics in the German department. Kelly developed an interest in water sustainability while living in São Paulo, Brazil, where she worked for an environmental consultancy, performing water management consulting for a multi-billion dollar, multi-national beverage company. Kelly also has an interest in domestic social justice, and operates a federally recognized non-profit in Trenton, which she co-founded with Taylor Behmke '12. Their organization, the Food Justice Foundation, addresses issues of food security in the inner city, and sits on a number of food policy councils for the Trenton government. Before coming to Princeton, Kelly studied double bass performance at the Juilliard School, and carries on her interest in music as the social chair at Terrace Club, a WPRB DJ, and a freelance music journalist for German pop-radio station 1Live.
Michael Schoenleber is an Undergraduate in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. At Princeton, Michael is a fellow in Princeton’s Interreligious Engagement Group. He has worked at the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy for two summers as a research assistant for the president of the center, Dr. Doug Johnston. Additionally, he has conducted several reconciliation and policy-development gatherings for young people from Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Venezuela, Egypt, Iran and Belarus. With respect to PORDIR, Michael is interested in faith-based diplomacy as a track two approach to preventing conflict.
Alice Su is a junior in the Woodrow Wilson School who is also pursuing certificates in Near Eastern Studies and Values and Public Life. Having spent her high school years in Shanghai, Alice entered the Wilson School with an intended focus on religion and state relations in China. Since then, she's become interested in the Middle East, spent a summer learning Arabic in Morocco, and studied Middle Eastern Politics for a term abroad at Oxford. Alice now hopes to center her research on the role of Islamist parties in post-Arab Spring states or on Islam in China, and looks forward to sharing the experience with the other PORDIR fellows. On campus, Alice also serves in Manna Christian Fellowship, sings with the Princeton Tigerlilies, and writes for the University Press Club.
Alana Tornello has worked as a Student Associate of the Liechtenstein Institute for the past year and was a Co-Convener of Princeton's Religious Life Council. She is a senior in the Department of Comparative Literature, writing a thesis on revolutionary writings and performances by selected young artists of the Italian Revolutions of 1848, Russian October Revolution, and the Egyptian Arab Spring. She hopes to integrate the religious and anti-religious revelations of young activist-artists into her thesis (or into her work in PORDIR) and her Spring Junior Paper explored anti-religious and resource acquisition themes in Stalinist Children's Literature. Outside of academia, Alana helped to organize a Coming Together Conference that brought over a hundred interfaith leaders from across the nation together to discuss more effective uses and methods of interfaith dialogue and she stage-managed Performing the Sacred in the University Chapel, a unique showcase of spiritual performances by various campus groups and individuals. Beyond Princeton, she has worked at the intersections of social justice movements, religious community organizing, activist art, and indigenous rights through a coalition on water rights on the Navajo Nation reservation and later through a social venture that addressed post-apartheid interfaith struggles for land rights for the Xhosa people in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Dana Weinstein is a senior in the Politics Department with a certificate in Women and Gender Studies. Her academic interests focus primarily on law, political institutions, and social change in the U.S. as well as gender and political Islam in the Middle East. Dana is writing her senior thesis on the effects of gender, political party, and campaign financing on Congressional elections. Outside of Princeton, Dana has interned with the National Network to End Domestic Violence in Washington D.C., Sanctuary for Families in New York City, and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Department. On campus, she is the Co-President of the SHARE Peer Advisors, the Student Chair of the Alcohol Coalition Committee, and the Chair of the Peer Representatives for the Honor Committee.
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