Nina Shelanski is currently a Dean’s Scholar in the second year of the Master of Arts in International Relations program at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She began her career in the Middle East, and has also worked in the United States and Canada. Her experience includes advancing defense cooperation, policy advocacy, intelligence analysis, threat assessment, and supporting multinational security initiatives. Nina is a research assistant at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. She also serves on the executive board of NATO Youth Canada, and works as a consultant for the Alma Research and Education Center, an NGO focusing on Iranian-backed security threats. She holds a B.A. from the International Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and is an inducted member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.