Alumni Testimonials
The Fletcher School’s holistic GAIA coursework equips alumni across fields of study with the tools to incorporate a gender and intersectional lens in myriad ways post-Fletcher. Dedicated alumni across the globe demonstrate these crucial skills in a variety of industries and roles.
Learn more about their stories:
Emily Prey is the Director of Gender Policy at the New Lines Institute. She served as an advisor on and contributed to the institute’s groundbreaking independent expert reports: The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention and An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent. Her work has been published in several international publications including Foreign Policy, The Dhaka Tribune, and Praxis Journal of Human Security.
Emily has been interviewed by international media, including The New York Times, CNN, Radio France International, ilGiornale, and Radio Free Asia Institute for her expertise on gender, conflict-related sexual violence, and genocide. She has briefed members of Congress and their staff, U.S. government agencies, and members of parliaments around the world on genocide; conflict-related sexual violence; and Women, Peace and Security. Emily is the founder of “Gendering Geopolitics,” a popular series where she uses a gendered lens to interview prominent female diplomats, journalist, activists and more around the world for 10 minutes on a particular issue.
Prior to joining the New Lines Institute, she served as Project Manager of the Financial Integration in Displacement Initiative of the International Rescue Committee at Tufts University. She has also worked with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and multiple global NGOs. She has several years of experience living and working in international development settings in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East. She obtained her Master’s degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, her Bachelor’s in History from Williams College, and is currently pursuing an LLM in Human Rights at SOAS University, London.
Subin is a human rights lawyer and researcher based in Nepal. He recently worked as the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advisor for Mercy Corps. Nepal. Before that he worked for Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD) in Kathmandu as the Programme Coordinator for 4 years and then as the Senior Legal Advisor for a year where his responsibilities ranged from project planning, implementation, advocacy, litigation and research on statelessness, migration and human rights. In particular, he implemented a project on ‘civil documentation’ supported by UNHCR. He has a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University where he focused on gender, human rights and migration. He has conducted a number of studies on acquisition of citizenship certificates and statelessness in Nepal. He identifies as a staunch feminist and adopts a strong intersectional feminist lens in all his work and writings.
If you are a Fletcher alum and would like to share a testimonial of how GAIA influences your current work, please reach out to GAIA Student Coordinator, Emma Bixler (Emma.Bixler@tufts.edu).