Kirith Ahluwalia is an international student from the UK. She is studying American Studies at the University of Portsmouth in England. She founded, and is currently president of, the American Studies Society at the university and will be graduating May 2012.

Kirith’s interests lie in US and UK foreign policy and international relations and she is looking to pursue a career in foreign services. She is currently writing her final year paper on the US-UK Special Relationship.

Tom Speller, from London, England, is a Second Year American Studies student at the University of Portsmouth in Hampshire, United Kingdom. Tom’s areas of interest are American Politics and the Economics.

For his projects Tom has been focusing on the economies of the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Portugal.

HyeSu Han is a senior pursuing a Bachelor's Art degree in Sociology and minor concentration in Political Science at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She is an international student from South Korea. HyeSu's areas of academic interest are regional studies of East Asia and Social Inequality. She wants to be East Asian politics expert and desires to have a career in Foreign Service.

Outside of academia, HyeSu likes to sing, play musical instruments, and play sports. She likes to go snowboarding and traveling. She is currently engaged in various local community services and is a volunteer journalist at Youth-Leader Magazine.

Alex Zelinski is a proud native of New York City and a Junior at Hofstra University, majoring in Political Science. He has served as a Senator in the Hofstra University Student Government Association for two years. This past semester he was elected by the Hofstra University undergraduate student body to serve as SGA Vice President for the 2011-2012 academic year. In addition to his involvement with the Student Government Association, he is a co-founder of Hofstra University Model United Nations.

Between March and December of 2010, Alex served as the Treasurer of Model U.N. He then stepped up to serve as the Vice-President of MUN in the Spring 2011 semester, in which he led the team to their first major conference award. Some of his other hobbies include following his favorite sports teams, playing tennis, and listening to rock music.

Abdour Diallo, from Brooklyn, New York, is a senior anticipating graduation in August at SUNY Cortland with a B.A in Economics and a minor in Political Science. He speak three languages (French, English, Fulani). After undergraduate work, Abdour plans to go to graduate school. He is interested in economics policies, international affairs, economics development and finance.

Benjamin Grainger graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Race and Ethnic Studies and a Government/Pre-Law minor from the University of Redlands in Redlands, CA, in May of 2011. In the fall of 2011, he will be starting a Judicial Administration Fellowship to earn a Masters in Public Policy from the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State University.

Ben is an avid world traveler and has studied abroad in Chile, Argentina, and Nepal. In the future, Ben hopes to found a non-profit focusing on issues of race, poverty, and education.