Team Leads
Ben Ballard
Strategy Director
Ellysse Dick
Communications and Outreach Director
Shashank Reddy Ramireddy
Fundraising & Partnerships Director
Logistics
Lukas Bundonis
Logistics Coordinator
Nicole Leaver
Experience Coordinator
Carla Martinez
Logistics Coordinator & Panel Organizer
Communications and Outreach
Victoria Garcia
Digital Engagement Coordinator
Anuradha Herur
Editorial Coordinator
Adriana Lamirande
Media Relations Coordinator
Ben Ballard
Ben Ballard is a second-year MALD with a focus on International Information; Communication and Comparative Politics. He is currently conducting work in ICT4D, digital governance, data privacy, and online freedom of expression. His work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a Google Public Policy Fellow covered digital surveillance, online censorship, data privacy, and cross-border data flows.
Lukas Bundonis
Lukas Bundonis is a second-year Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He currently focuses on international security studies and international information and communication, though his research interests mainly focus on cyber and emerging technology policy. While at Fletcher, he has produced policy papers on artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology, cybersecurity risk, and other topics. He also leads several student groups on campus, including the school’s flagship foreign policy journal, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs.
Professionally, Lukas has served in the United States Army Reserves as a military intelligence officer since May 2014, acting as a multi-functional team leader, counterintelligence platoon leader, and company-level executive officer during that time. From 2015-2017, he served as a contracted cyber threat intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assigned to cover the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program and subsequently to cover Iranian cyber operations. In 2018, he worked as an identity and access management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC – US).
This past October, he joined The Cambridge Project, an interdisciplinary team of graduate students from Harvard, MIT, and Tufts organized under the leadership of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to apply unique machine learning methods to the emerging field of predictive medicine. Earlier this November, he also began work for The Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a research assistant to the China Cyber Policy Initiative. His current project is to assemble a lexicon for US-China relations in cyberspace to enhance the Center’s ability to lead its Track II diplomatic dialogue with the Chinese government.
Ellysse Dick
Ellysse Dick is a communications professional specializing in global policy and advocacy communications. She has worked with both local and international organizations to develop and implement strategic advocacy and outreach practices including stakeholder engagement, digital content, event planning, and media relationships.
A second-year MALD at Fletcher, Ellysse is studying international policy communications and global technology policy. Her research focuses on corporate social responsibility and self-regulatory practices in the new media technology industry. Prior to Fletcher, she served as the communications lead for the Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Center, where she managed strategic outreach and external relations for the project.
Ellysse holds a B.A. in International Affairs and German Studies and a Certificate in Middle East and Islamic Studies from the University of Colorado, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Victoria Garcia
Victoria Garcia is a Master’s candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from Westchester, New York. She focuses on cybersecurity, tech policy, and international law with an interest in the intersection of national security and individual privacy rights. She competed in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 as a member of the Fletcher team. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University, where she double majored in history and international relations and spent six months studying in Sydney, Australia. Victoria has five years of professional experience in the tech sector and three years of professional experience as a data analyst. She is an accomplished violinist who has been playing for twenty years and has performed with symphonies at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and other prestigious venues. After graduation, she plans to either reenter the startup sphere as a data privacy specialist or join a think tank focusing on the regulation of the tech sector.
Anuradha Herur
Anuradha Herur has written both for The Hindu, which is a leading national newspaper in India, as well as smaller local newspapers and blogs. She has also worked extensively in law and policy. She was a summer policy intern at the UNDP in New Delhi, where she occasionally liaised between the Ministry of New and Renewable Resources, and the ISA team at UNDP.
At Fletcher, she is a second year MALD, studying Human Security and International Communication. Her research focuses on the impact of media in all its forms on the sovereignty and self-determination of nations. For the summer, she is a research intern with Global Press Journal, which is a news organisation that mostly reports on local human rights and environmental issues in over 15 countries.
Anuradha has a B.A. LL.B (Hons.) in Criminal Law from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, Punjab.
Adriana Lamirande
Adriana Lamirande is pursuing an MA in Law & Diplomacy, with a concentration in technology policy and human security issues. Prior to Fletcher, she worked at a tech PR firm in San Francisco where she represented companies spanning cybersecurity, internet performance and B2B sectors, collaborated with reporters at top publications, participated in crucial policy initiatives, and ghostwrote bylines for the C-level. She’s interested in exploring how technology can help solve our world’s biggest challenges, namely curbing human rights abuses.
Nicole Leaver
Nicole Leaver is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School, focusing on international technology policy issues including privacy, platform accountability, and civil liberties. Nicole is also a Research Assistant of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where she analyzes media manipulation techniques and the implications of disinformation on social movements. She holds a BA in Political Science and Gender Studies from the University of Ottawa and an MA in Philosophy from Trent University, Canada.
Carla Martinez
Carla is a second-year Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy candidate specializing in International Communications and International Consultancy. On her capstone project, Carla focuses on the consequences of the Tech Revolution in Latin America’s human rights framework, namely, the rights to privacy and the protection of personal data.
After completing internships with the Mexican Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, and the Mexican Permanent Delegation to UNESCO in Paris, she joined Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission as an analyst for relations with international NGOs. Currently, she works as a research assistant at The Fletcher School studying Artificial Intelligence and mobile money for development, and co-leads the Fletcher Latin America Group.
Shashank Reddy Ramireddy
Shashank Reddy Ramireddy studies the intersection of emerging technologies, domestic tech policies, and international relations, with a special focus on Artificial Intelligence. He has previously worked with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on these issues. Shashank has served as a member of the Indian Ministry of Defense’s National Taskforce on AI, and has worked closely with the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. He also continues to be a member of the International Panel on Regulation of Autonomous Weapons in Berlin, Germany.
A second year MALD, Shashank is studying global technology policy and international security studies. He is doing a summer research project with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, where he is studying the Indian government’s capacity to regulate digital monopolies.
Shashank holds a B.A.LLB (Hons) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.