Ayaka has a strong background in both conflict resolution and Artificial Intelligence. At Peloria, Ayaka leads the policy analysis team, manages several projects, and also leads on business development. She previously worked as a consultant at IBM and as a fellow at PeaceTech Lab in the United States Institute of Peace. As a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship from Japan, she graduated with an MA in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University. She was formerly an intern at Peloria.

Weifeng is a political economist and data scientist. He is a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a core developer of the open-sourced Policy Change Index project, which uses machine learning to predict authoritarian regimes’ policy moves by “reading” their propaganda. Weifeng has been published in a variety of scholarly journals. His work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, and the South China Morning Post, among others. Weifeng holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in managerial economics and strategy from Northwestern University.

Sarang enjoys both data science and software development experience across SaaS companies. His recent work focused on NLP, particularly theme extraction. He holds a Ph.D. in Signal processing from Auckland University of Technology. His research interests reside in predictive modeling, particularly via leveraging language metadata with emerging NLP methods.

Alphie is a partnership researcher at the National School of Administration in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She previously worked as a corporate researcher and organizer at Oxfam America. She has a Dual MA in Conflict Management and Sustainable International Development from the Heller School at Brandeis University. She is fluent in French and Swahili with proficiency in several other languages.

Devi is a senior undergraduate student at Whitman College. She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a concentration in UX (User Experience).  Her expertise includes designing social media posts, app prototypes, informative graphics, and websites. Devi is passionate about all things design, and aims to use her skills to improve lives. She is the co-founder and vice president of the Whitman Design Alliance. Devi ran cross country and track for Whitman College and is currently on the Nordic ski team.

Jack is currently in his 4th year of undergraduate study at Victoria University of Wellington, pursuing a conjoint degree in Commerce and Law (Hons). Jack’s passion lie in contract law and international law. He enjoys applying his knowledge to solve practical issues with real-world implications. With a global mind, Jack hopes to effect positive change and is eager to expand his existing skillset.

Quanuah is a recent graduate from American University with a BA in Law and Society. She is passionate about the use of the law as a tool for positive change in the lives of people. Much of her coursework focused on the connections between social theory, legal institutions and government. Quanuah aspires to become an international human rights lawyer, utilizing her desire to help people and impact global policy. She was awarded Best Undergraduate Essay on Classical Liberalism, by the School of Public Affairs’ Political Theory Institute, 2022.

Sven Riethmueller is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Robert Todd Lang ’47 Entrepreneurship Fellow at Yale Law School and the inaugural Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic at Yale Law School. His former legal practice focused on U.S. and European domestic and cross-border technology and business transactions for clients in the life sciences, medical devices, digital health, software and IT, technology and other innovative industries. His preceding private practice, included as a law firm partner, and in-house counsel, including as the general counsel of a publicly traded life sciences company. He counseled clients in U.S. and cross-border strategic intellectual property and technology licenses, acquisitions and divestitures, complex partnering, joint venture and collaboration agreements, strategic investments and financings, corporate governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, and other business transactions. A key aspect of his private practice was the commercialization of intellectual property. Riethmueller received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

Muru has a background in Mathematics and Statistics. He is a Data Scientist and has worked as a Teacher and a Software Engineer. His recent work has been on detecting anomalous objects and events in images and videos. His research interest is in statistical modelling of data and building machine learning pipelines for various tasks. He holds a BSc.(Hons) in Mathematics and Minor in Statistics from National University of Singapore, MSc. in Mathematics from King’s College London and PhD in Engineering from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).

Takamichi is a recent graduate from Georgetown University with a Master’s in Conflict Resolution. At school, he studied International Development and Humanitarian Issues, with a majority of his classes focusing on IDPs, government-led development in developing countries, and political risk management. In prior careers, he has interned in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene development at iDE and IDPs at IDMC. He has a deep passion for the intersection between business, government, and society, focusing on leveraging business roles in political and social phenomena, especially around conflict resolution settings.

Kenneth Gyamerah is an educational policy analyst and researcher with 7 years of experience in national and international contexts. Kenneth is interested in International Development, Education and Civic Engagement. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Education at the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University in Canada. As a Chevening Scholar, Kenneth holds an MSc in Education Policy and International Development with Distinction from the University of Bristol, and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Education, Winneba Ghana. He previously worked as a research consultant for CIVICUS Alliance for Citizen Participation where he co-designed Youth Action Lab, a youth co-creation lab that is providing resources and tools to support youth activists across the Global South. Kenneth has also worked as research consultant for Plan International Sweden where he explored the Civic Implications for children and youth activists in 21 countries covering Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Meg Siritzky is a PhD student at the University of Oregon studying Psychology with a specialization in data science. Her research focuses on measuring violence-promoting political attitudes and examining their relationship with support for political violence. She is a prior recipient of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Fellowship and Columbia University’s Kraft Global Fellowship. Meg holds an MS in Psychology from the University of Oregon and a BA in Environmental Science from Barnard College.

David is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University. His areas of study include Conflict Risk Assessment and Management, particularly in regard to social and political movements and non-violent resistance. In addition, he has received his B.A. in Political Science from Christopher Newport University. Past projects he has worked on include research regarding women’s inheritance rights and Sharia law, contributions to research on Tunisian electoral data compilation, assistance in research for academic papers regarding non-violent resistance in response to collective trauma, and assessing gender programming and refugee protection among Syrian immigrants amidst COVID-19.

He is an Art Director always in step with the creative trends and his task is to graphically represent all the work of the development team.