She is an associate professor at Tufts University and a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
She specializes in weapons of mass migration, forced displacement, and foreign policy.
in Political Economy and in Scandinavian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
She was Founding Convener and Chair of the Conflict, Security and Public Policy Working Group at Harvard University's Belfer Center from 2010 to 2020.
[2] She has written for International Security,[3] Security Studies,[4] and Civil Wars,[5] among others, as well as the New York Times,[6][7] Foreign Affairs,[8] the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune and the BBC.