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Nailah-Benā Chambers is a Research Intern at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), focusing on security and defense strategy and R.O.K. trilateral relations.

Prior to joining KEI, she interned at the U.S. Department of Commerce under former Secretary Gina Raimondo, where she provided support for policy briefings concerning bipartisan U.S.-China economic policy and Infrastructure Law for broadband access. She then spent time in South Korea at Kookmin University studying U.S.-ROK relations, and next went to Taipei, Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese and global health policy alongside cross-strait relations at NTU. Following her time at the U.S. Department of Commerce, she completed her Fulbright grant in Taichung, Taiwan, where alongside teaching, her work focused on creating and implementing a multi-cultural education program to improve competency in foreign language learning and cultural exchange. She has also worked as the Global Engagement Officer and Operations Assistant for the Johns Hopkins SAIS Global Career Office, focusing on stakeholder engagement across East Asia and creating promotional materials for the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.

Nailah-Benā Chambers holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from the University of Maryland Baltimore, County, and is currently finishing her Masters degree at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She spent her first year of the program in Nanjing, China, where she took courses in Mandarin Chinese at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, focusing on China’s economic development and modernization policies.