I am the Academic Counselor and Coordinator of Alumni Affairs for the Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi. As the Academic Counselor for Croft, I oversee the back-end of our advising system and processes, including the maintenance of all our internal student record keeping systems (primarily in M.S. Access). I serve all of Croft’s students, but work most closely with our First-Years and Sophomores. Much of my time outside of Advising is spent on student life programming, including linking our current students with our alumni network, hosting career planning events, and social events to strengthen our cohort model. I earned my M.A. in History in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History at U.M. In those two years, I authored by thesis, “Development or Detriment? The World Bank and Economic Disincentives to Water Conservation,” an environmental history thesis looking at the underlying economics of water systems in the MENA region. Previously I worked as a Legal Researcher and Assistant at Montague, Pittman & Varnado, P.A. and as a Marketing and Media Assistant for the Early Education Dream Center. During Summer 2017, I called Meknes, Morocco my home while studying Arabic with the Critical Language Scholarship Program. I graduated from the Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi in 2017, and had the opportunity to study in Amman, Jordan in 2016 and 2017.