Reshma is a second year MPA candidate at LSE. Her background lies in the Performing Arts as she holds a BFA in Dance with a minor in Music Business and Entrepreneurship from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She specializes in using the arts as a tool for systemic change. Between others, Reshma created a dance education program at Miami’s Lotus House Women’s shelter. Most recently, Reshma has worked as a Policy Research intern at Wonder Foundation, exploring the teaching of soft skills through the arts to build a stronger female workforce in developing countries. Through her multicultural background, having worked with various diverse professional dance companies and working as a volunteer dance instructor for children in Jamaica and Haiti, she got even more interested in humanitarian rights, specifically inclusion of minorities and women’s rights, which ties to this project.

Doménica is the former Community Engagement Officer for the Association of Public Policy Students 2020 at the LSE. She is a Second Year MPA. Doménica was born and raised in Ecuador and holds a I bachelor’s in economics. Her interest are politics and development economics. She is also an activist for youth involvement in politics. She has research experience in education, health, and economic development, and she has done Strategic Planning for Public Universities. She is the founder member of Va pa´lante, an organization that supports the inclusion of Venezuelan immigrants in Ecuador. Currently, she is part of Project access, an NGO that helps refugees to go into higher education.

Bethany Carter is a native of Pelham, Alabama, and graduate of the University of Alabama, where she studied political science, classics, and education. She is currently a First Year MPA student specializing in Economic Policy. Before coming to LSE, she worked for several years in the U.S. Senate as a legislative aide and has additional experience in a variety of nonprofit organizations. Since January 2020, she has been Operations and Communications Coordinator for Birmingham Talks, an Alabama nonprofit that focuses on building the foundations for lifelong literacy and school readiness in children ages 0-3 through early adult talk and interaction

Giuliana Huerta-Mercado, 24, was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She studied Economics at the University of Michigan in the US and is currently following a Master of Public Administration at LSE. While studying at Michigan she founded the non-profit United Technologies for Kids to promote STEM education in Latin America. In the past 4 years UTK has implemented hands-on programmes in 70 schools in Peru and Colombia impacting more than 5000 students. In her free time, she likes to read, do kickboxing and listen to Latin music 💃🏽