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Alexa Chopivsky, Executive Director
 Alexa Chopivsky is the Executive Director of the Women's Foreign Policy Group. Previously, as the founding Executive Director of Ukraine House Davos, Ms. Chopivsky led the creation and elevation of Ukraine’s country investment promotion platform alongside the World Economic Forum, both before and after the war. She served as deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Ukraine Invest and was an adviser to the Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine. Since 2012, she has served as the Director of the Program on the World Economy at the Aspen Institute. Ms. Chopivsky started her career as a journalist at NBC News, where she covered world events from the New York, Washington, and London bureaus. She later moved to Kyiv, where she was a consultant for an American firm and a freelance journalist, traveling across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Ms. Chopivsky is the Founder of Transnational Education Group and served as Executive Director of the American Center for a European Ukraine. She serves on the boards of National Cathedral School, Orchestra of the Americas Group, Teach for Ukraine, The Washington Group, and Ukrainian Freedom Fund. In 2021, the President of Ukraine awarded Ms. Chopivsky the Order of Princess Olga. Ms. Chopivsky received a BA from Yale University with distinction in Political Science and Russian & East European Studies, an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and an MIPP from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Contact: [email protected] Lindsay Sharman, Program Associate
 Lindsay Sharman is the Program Associate at the Women's Foreign Policy Group, where she is excited to promote women's leadership in global affairs and create meaningful programming and mentorship experiences. In 2024, she graduated with honors from Princeton University, where she received a degree in Public & International Affairs and a certificate in Spanish Language & Culture. Lindsay wrote her dissertation on Holocaust education policy in Argentina, for which she traveled to Buenos Aires to interview government officials, historians, and educators. Lindsay was a participant in the inaugural Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic, where she worked with a Congressional office to produce a 136-page policy memorandum on criminal justice reform. In addition to working as a Research Assistant and involvement with several non-profits, she has completed internships with two Members of Congress, as well as a Strategy Consulting internship at Capital One. She is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Contact: [email protected]
 Zoe V. Balk is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she earned a B.A. magna cum laude in International Studies with an elective focus on Chinese history and culture, as well as a minor in Chinese language. Her background includes both research and on-the-ground experience. Most recently, she served as Senior Project Intern at the US-China Education Trust. For Professor Aytuğ Şaşmaz, she researched political parties in South and Southeast Asia. Beyond research work, she served refugees in their first few weeks in the United States during two summers at the Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia. She is interested in China and India, has proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, and is currently studying Bengali and Hindi. Claudia Brinks is a senior at the University of Michigan pursuing a B.A. in International Studies and Political Science, with a concentration in International Security, Norms, and Cooperation. She is currently participating in the Michigan in Washington program while interning with WFPG. Her academic interests center on international human rights, particularly in the field of transitional justice. This past summer, Claudia interned with a peacebuilding NGO in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she contributed to initiatives on peacebuilding and genocide prevention, piquing her interest in transitional justice within post-conflict societies. On campus, she serves as a human rights researcher for the Michigan Foreign Policy Council, is a member of the Sigma Iota Rho honor society, and is involved in TEDxUofM. Her research explores international human rights law, press freedom, and transitional justice. In the future, she plans on attending law school with the aspiration of becoming an international human rights lawyer. Alexia Creeden is a third-year undergraduate at The George Washington University, majoring in International Affairs and History with a regional concentration in Europe and Eurasia and a minor in Economics. Her academic and research interests center on migration, women's issues, and democratic backsliding in Western Europe. She is currently completing a two-year-long research project at the Elliott School of International Affairs as part of their Dean's Scholars Program. Her research project focuses on gender-sensitive asylum practices in France. She has published her work on the use of gender as a category in asylum applications in the Elliott School of International Affairs' Undergraduate Research Journal, The Globe. Alexia has also recently completed internships with the U.S. Department of State Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues and the Office of U.S. Senator Mark Warner. On campus, she is the Vice President of Philanthropy for Sigma Iota Rho International Affairs Honors Society and the Chief of Staff for the 30th Greater Washington Conference on International Affairs. She speaks Spanish and French, and has plans to attend graduate school following her graduation from the George Washington University. Eva Erickson is a fourth-year undergraduate at Oregon State University majoring in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and minoring in Spanish and Economics. On campus, she has served as Records Clerk and Secretary of the Student Advisory Board for the Associated Students of OSU and is a leadership member and Social Media Manager of the Women in Policy Club. Her research focuses on economic development, inequality, and conflict resolution, with an emphasis on Latin America. She has examined topics including labor market inequality, income distribution, and political dynamics surrounding resource-based conflicts. Her work often engages with how economic structures and institutional design can either exacerbate or mitigate social and political instability. More recently, through her internship and work with the California State Legislature, she authored a bill assessing the disproportionate impact of algorithmic tenant-screening systems on vulnerable renters. Eva hopes to pursue a career in international development and diplomacy to advance more equitable and sustainable global systems. She is passionate about learning languages and engaging with diverse cultures, and she looks forward to traveling and living abroad as part of her professional journey. Jessica Tucker is a senior at the George Washington University, majoring in International Affairs with a concentration in Security Policy and a minor in Spanish. Her academic and career interests center on the intersection of international affairs and business with a focus on Latin America, human rights, migration, and transnational organized crime. As a Foreign Policy Intern at the Washington Office on Latin America, her most rewarding project was the creation of a comprehensive report documenting human rights abuses in Colombia. She also served as an intern at the Guatemala Solidarity Project, where she supported efforts to amplify the voices of indigenous communities through video translation projects. Jessica recently completed an exchange semester abroad at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she studied international politics and achieved an advanced proficiency level in Spanish. She is now beginning her study of Portuguese as her third language to expand her ability to engage with communities across the region. |