ORGANIZERS
Josh Cohen
Josh is a first year graduate student at the Fletcher School pursuing a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy in International Development & Environmental Policy and International Legal Studies. While he is a Canadian from outside the Arctic region, his interest in the Northwest Passage and the rest of the Arctic region was ignited from his classes in Law of the Sea and Global Maritime Affairs as well as his attendance at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2024. He hopes to bring his youthful spirit and experience in event coordination to make this edition of the Fletcher Maritime Arctic Conference the best one yet.
Eshani Chakrabarti
Eshani Chakrabarti is a second year graduate student at the Fletcher School of Global Affairs pursuing a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy in international negotiation and conflict resolution. Recently selected as a Youth Ambassador for the USA pavilion in Osaka, Japan at Expo2025. She is a graduate of Colby College in Global Studies concentrating on international relations and foreign policy. After attending the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland in 2024 and 2025, Eshani had the oppertunity to partcipate in the Policy and Social Innovations for the Changing Arctic at the Belfar Center at the Kennedy School with Halla Logadottir and complete coursework in Maritime Security at the Fletcher School of Global Affairs. She hopes to shed light on the importance of the Arctic at the conference.Committed to soft power strategies of building bridges through cultural diplomacy, she runs the music diplomacy club and soft power society on campus. Eshani is a documentary filmmaker and proud member of the Fletcheros, Fletcher’s house band of law and diplomacy.
