#PolicyProfile: “Before coming to Princeton, I was a contractor with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), focusing on food security and resilience issues. Our team worked with many partners across Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia to help improve their investments in agricultural development and reduce hunger and malnutrition. My previous roles centered more on policy research and advocacy, including two years at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. There, I worked on several economic and social policy issues, primarily to promote racial and economic equity. I developed a real interest in public policy as an undergrad at UCDavis. I took courses in economics and global politics that highlighted the ways that specific policies helped reduce poverty in some contexts but also policies that exacerbated or created some of the economic inequality that we face today. It exposed me to how policy can be used impactfully to promote and shape society to prom...