Isabel is pursuing a major in International Affairs with a concentration in Security Policy and a minor in Public policy. Her research aims to analyze how the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya – a roughly $4 billion project through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – is perceived by local Kenyans and if attitudes towards China more generally have changed as a result.
She seeks to emphasize the opinions and perspectives directly from locals through virtual interviews. Outside of class, Isabel is a dedicated member of the Delta Phi Epsilon (DPE) Professional Foreign Service Sorority and has previously interned for the Institute of World Politics and was a Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) intern for the Department of State on the “China in Africa” project.