Leadership
President & Editor in Chief: Teresa Meloni
Co-President & Co-Editor in Chief: Divya Priyadarshini
Vice President & Editor in Training : Mariam Jugeli
Director of Graduate Student Engagement: Kyana Taban
President & Editor in Chief: Teresa Meloni
Teresa is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. With a background in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Utah's Honors college and time spent both managing restaurants in SLC and in the corporate finance world working for Morgan Stanley, she is furthering her interest in human forward policy making through an environmental policy concentration in cohorts with classes from both the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas School for the Environment.
Through in depth policy analysis she hopes to further her writing skills through journalistic endeavors bringing in both scientific methodologies, research based best practices, and a never dying hope for her fellow compatriots in correcting failures of our systems.
Vice President & Co-Editor in Chief: Divya Priyadarshini
Divya Priyadarshini is a graduate student at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, with a focus on urban and social policy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of city planning, inequality, and community well-being, exploring how policies on housing, transportation, and land use shape social outcomes.
With a background in sociology and criminology, Divya brings an interdisciplinary perspective to questions of equity, sustainability, and governance in urban spaces.
Vice President & Co-Editor in Training:
Coming from the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Mariam represents a small yet proud nation: Georgia. She’s a first-year MPP program student aspiring to become a voice for the unheard and underrepresented. Mariam has been an activist in Georgia defending democratic values, a blogger since 2016, and an Equality Ambassador at the Council of Europe Office in Georgia.
"We're excited to see what you want to publish here at Sanford, and welcome all forms of papers! Whether you want to write a hot topic Op-Ed to your local or federal representative or you want to practice writing up a Policy Brief on an issue you've come across in your course work - we'd be lucky to have your submissions!" TM