Anastasia is a senior pursuing a B.A. in Public Policy with a minor in African and African American Studies and certificate in Markets and Management. Through volunteering for Amnesty USA and Oxfam Great Britain, she became interested in international development and worked to advance marginalized individuals’ access to capital through internships with the US Small Business Administration in DC and Women’s Microfinance Initiative in Uganda. Ultimately, she hopes to attend law school and work at the systemic level, changing the policy frameworks which maintain global inequality. To this end, her thesis investigates how power asymmetry in preferential trade agreements affects the degree to which their dispute settlement mechanisms are amicable. On campus, she is a Patman Fellow in the Hart Leadership Program, research assistant and teaching assistant in the Sanford School of Public Policy, analyst for the public sector consulting group American Futures Institute, lead print editor for Duke Undergraduate Law Review, and member of StreetMedicine dance group.
Honors Thesis: Trade Remediation in the Era of WTO Paralysis: Preferential Agreements as a Viable Alternative for the Global South or Reproduction of Existing Inequities?
Faculty Advisor: Professor Sarah Blodgett Bermeo