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Lina Chang

Lina Chang is a second-year undergraduate at Pomona College double majoring in Public Policy Analysis/Politics and Media Studies. Her research interests include US-ROK-Japan trilateral relations, East Asian soft power, and Women, Peace and Security issues. She is currently a Research Assistant at Pomona College.

Claire Ng

Claire Ng is a fresh graduate from the National University of Singapore (NUS) who majored in Political Science and History. Her research interests include issues of maritime and nuclear security, modern legacies of colonialism in Asia, and domestic and regional affairs within Northeast and Southeast Asia. Some of her most recent works include an honours […]

Xiaoyi (Yee) Ze

Xiaoyi (Yee) Ze’s research interests include international relations, East Asian culture and history, Chinese diaspora, and international development. She holds a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia and a MA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her PhD dissertation centers on East Asia international relations in the late nineteenth century, […]

Chitrali Parashar

Chitrali Parashar is an Analyst with The Asia Group’s Japan practice. Before joining The Asia Group, Chitrali interned with the East Asia and Pacific practice at the Albright Stonebridge Group. In the summer of 2023, she broke new ground as the first foreign national to intern with the International Strategy Unit of Japan’s Digital Agency. Her work there included research […]

Aoi Onodera

Aoi Onodera is a third-year undergraduate majoring in Political Science at Keio University (Tokyo). She has also studied for a year at Brown University, focusing on international affairs and identity politics. Her research interests include US strategic relations and Japan’s security policy as well as migration, nationalism, and global health.

Endreyah Middleton

Endreyah Middleton is a senior at Tokyo International University, majoring in International Relations. Her research interest in Women and Security throughout the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. She is passionate about helping contribute to political and social change by learning about different cultures and people.

Janessa Chu

Janessa Chu is pursuing an M.A. in International Affairs at Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Previously, she worked at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, where she supported the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program in fostering connections among specialists worldwide. Her academic interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, […]

Chiquita Widjaja

Chiquita Widjaja is a final-year undergraduate student at Tokyo International University, majoring in International Relations. Her research interests include strategic relations and maritime security in the Indo-Pacific, especially in Southeast Asia. She is also passionate about NGO-work, mainly in areas relating to children’s rights and youth empowerment.

Claire McCreery

Claire McCreery recently completed her master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics. For her undergraduate studies, she attended the University of Washington to study Political Science and also studied abroad in Prague and Paris during her time there. Claire previously interned with the State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development, […]

Daeun Choi

Daeun Choi is a Research Associate at the Center for Foreign Policy and National Security at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea. Previously she worked as a Diplomacy research development associate at Youthplomacy and a human rights analyst at the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. She also supported city-diplomacy activities at […]