University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences, 2023
Major: International Relations
Minors: Economic Policy; Legal Studies & History
Zuha is a Junior at the University of Pennsylvania studying International Relations with an interest in international security and economic policymaking in the developing world. She hails from Lahore, Pakistan, harbors a keen interest in languages, and hopes to pursue regional and international security planning in future. Since the Fall of 2019, Zuha has been working as a research assistant on the Borders & Boundaries Project at the Perry World House which studies border security around the world from the lens of physical barriers. She is also a Perry World House Student Fellow and in the past year, she has worked on a policy project regarding NATO and Turkey relations which was presented before current policy advisors in NATO and the US administration.
At TTCSP, she has led the Pandemic Policymaking Team since Fall 2020 and co-coordinated two summits. In Summer 2021, she will be serving on the Executive Team and as the Project Lead for Security and International Affairs Team. She will also be interning at the Middle East Institute where she will work with the Center for Afghanistan and Pakistan. At Penn, she also serves as the Managing Editor on the board of Penn Political Review, the university's primary political magazine. In the summer of 2020, she worked as a Linguistics Expert with the Linguistics Data Consortium (LDC) where she worked on the development of OCR and related technologies by collecting and annotating texts in different languages.
Zuha will be studying at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge for the Spring 2022 term.