Cyrena graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs, a concentration in Conflict Resolution, and minors in Geographic Information Systems and French Literature, Language, & Culture. As a member of the 2020-2022 cohort Dean’s Scholars Program, she interviewed members of the Rwandan Tutsi diaspora to explore the effects of the gacaca community court system on the forgiveness process between diaspora Hutus and Tutsis in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
During her time at GW, Cyrena served as a peer advisor for first-year Elliott School students, an intern with the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Foreign Influence: Election 2020 project, and an analyst with Miburo Solutions, a research and consulting firm that detects and counters extremism and disinformation campaigns in the digital sphere. Cyrena currently lives in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, France, where she works as a teaching assistant for middle and high school English students.