Previous RLD Leadership

Students at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy have led the student RLD club, participated in the RLD conference and Spring Speaker Series, and conducted research about the intersection of religion and international affairs since 2015. Meet our previous students and find out what they’re up to now:

Clare Gooding – F’18

Clare Gooding received a Master of International Business at Fletcher where she studied business development and operations with a regional focus in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to Fletcher, Clare worked in operations for the American Refugee Committee and as a caseworker for the US Refugee Admissions Program in East Africa. This past summer she worked for the Procurement department of Rawabi City in the Palestinian West Bank. Her professional interests include the cooperation of humanitarian agencies with religious institutions particularly around financial inclusion. In 2011, she was an intern at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York and has since followed closely the diplomatic work of the Holy See.

Sasha Lipton Galbraith – F’18

Sasha Lipton Galbraith was a Dual-Master’s Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard Divinity School. At Fletcher, she focused on program design, monitoring and evaluation in the humanitarian sector, and at Harvard Divinity School she explored the complex interplay between religions, conflicts and peacebuilding. She has worked with various NGOs and international organizations around the world supporting educational and humanitarian programming. Most recently, she interned with the Danish Refugee Council in Greece and helped to design a new accountability mechanism to improve communication in refugee camps in Greece. She speaks Italian, French and Chinese.

Peter Maki – F’18

Peter Maki is an active-duty Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy and received his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in December 2018. His fields of focus were International Security Studies and International Organizations. Peter has eleven years in uniform and deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the Middle East. Most recently he served as an Officer-In-Charge at the Navy Expeditionary Intelligence Command and deployed as Commander, Task Group 56.9 in support of the the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

Robin El Kady – F’18

Robin El Kady was a Dual-Master’s Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at Harvard. He focused on public international law and conflict resolution at Fletcher and studied religion, ethics, and politics at Harvard. Robin is interested in the cultural and religious manifestations in the political realm as well as in the reality-constituting role of media. He studied European media studies as an undergraduate at the University of Potsdam (Germany) and at Columbia University (NYC). He recently interned at the News and Media Division of the United Nations in NYC and at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.

Mary Soule – F’18

Mary Soule received a Master of Art in Law and Diplomacy candidate from the Fletcher School where she focused on security studies and human security. She is interested in how religion can act as an influential soft power in international relations and the integration of religious literacy in national security. She recently interned at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, Italy.

Emma Rosenberg – F’16

Emma was a co-founder of the Religion, Law & Diplomacy Initiative and organized the first conference in 2015. Emma Rosenberg is a PhD candidate in Political Science and a Doctoral Student Affiliate of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She is a Comparativist studying religion and politics with a focus on Central European right-wing populism and religion. She received a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2016 and an AB in Medieval Studies and History from the University of Chicago in 2008. Emma also worked for four years as Director of Communications for a Chicago city councilman and on campaigns in the Chicagoland area. Emma can be reached at erosenbe@nd.edu

Clare O’Hare – F’16

Clare was a co-founder of the Religion, Law & Diplomacy Initiative and organized the first conference in 2015. Clare is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Graduate Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. She received her undergraduate degree in Law & French Law from Trinity College Dublin and also holds a Master’s in Law from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. For eight years, Clare worked as a corporate lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Dubai. While working in Dubai, Clare also held an adjunct position at Zayed University, teaching freshman and sophomore courses. Clare can be contacted via email at cohare@nd.edu.