Jesslyn CHEONG is senior program manager at Pacific Forum. She coordinates Pacific Forum’s work as the local programming partner for the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, hosting visitor groups from around the world to engage professionally with counterparts in Hawai’i working on issues of common interest. Previously, she was a program manager at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from Georgetown University.