I graduated from the University of Georgia with degrees in International Affairs, Russian, and Spanish. I completed the Russian Flagship Program and its Capstone year of research and internship at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I am interested in the nuclear history of the former Soviet Union and the role that Central Asia will play in a new NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) regime in the wake of the war in Ukraine. A more multidisciplinary approach to non-proliferation is what I hope to develop through this course.