Dalya Berkowitz Email & Phone Number

Washington DC

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• with Dr. Elizabeth Stanley
• Expanding Dr. Stanley’s Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT) to Ukrainian veterans, first responders, healthcare providers, business leaders, and prosecutors tasked with investigating war crimes
• Identifying MMFT grant opportunities and writing grant materials
• Building a reading list for a conflict resolution course with a focus on the effects of stress, emotion, and trauma
• Conducting in-depth research compiling comprehensive perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine war and possible routes to conflict resolution and on the January 6th US insurrection
• Collecting readings for a literature review on the effects of (1) adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), (2) shock trauma events, and (3) chronic stress and relational trauma on moral injury and ethical decision making

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Wrote a newsletter on women in demining and program impact summaries for congresspeople, copy-edited newsletters, organized and planned congressional outreach events, co-designed new projects

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• with Dr. Ben Connable
• Independently identified and interviewed Ethiopia subject-matter experts, diplomats, journalists, scholars, and combined-arms battle witnesses in Ethiopia
• Designed a semi-structured interview format
• Found primary and secondary sources on 250+ combined-arms battles for work on a large-N dataset to be used as the basis for a book on the character of war

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Provided support for the CEO and Senior Fellows on background research, copy-editing, and proofing documents
• Successfully planned and supported a weeklong international conference with over 25 sessions and about two dozen African think-tank and university leaders and a one-day conference with senior-level African and U.S..
• Routinely produced background research on subjects including US/Angola/private-sector relations, the Ethiopian Tigray war and cessation of hostilities talks, African critical minerals, and African migrant care workers
• Wrote 19 event summaries for a conference report, over 30 thank-you letters, and about 10 event invitations
• Regularly crafted event and meeting materials and summaries
• Edited for content and clarity the publication Africa On the Horizon and blog posts

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Cultivated case studies focused on civil wars regarding the moral hazard problem, third-party intervention, third-party security guarantees in peace treaties, the likelihood of rebel groups fighting, self-determination.
• Built and analyzed datasets in Excel on refugee flows, energy price protests, and third-party interventions in civil wars

Washington DC

• Crafted drafts of letters to foreign countries and organizations, briefings, and readouts for 400+ staff around the world (about 10/wk)
• Produced notes at senior leadership meetings (about 5/wk) as well as an annual board meeting
• Facilitated a meeting between senior IFES staff, the Guatemalan Ambassador to the United States, and Guatemalan electoral judges

District Of Columbia, United States

• Sat in on briefings with the US Department of State, congressmen, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Embassy of Australia
• Engaged in talks from professionals on careers in the foreign service, UN, CIA, national security, foreign policy, Congress, US Institute of Peace, Department of Homeland Security, USAID, humanitarian aid and relief.
• Discussed in learning groups US policy towards China and Iran with think tank professionals, US policy towards Russia and Estonia with the Estonian Ambassador to the US, and the use of US power abroad with policy.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• Organized events, including a welcoming event for incoming scholars with government and university leadership
• Coordinated outreach to current and future Fulbright scholars, managed marketing software, and updated information
• Headed social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) and created campaigns to introduce new scholars

Reẖovot, Central, Israel

• Taught Ethiopian immigrant elementary school children to speak, read, and write English through lessons and games

Master'S Degree, Security Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science With A Concentration In International Relations; Psychology; Minor In French

Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Phi, International Relations Club Honors student 4.0