Maya Nir

Maya Nir (she/her) is a first year MA candidate in International Relations at NYU. She received her BA in Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia, where she wrote her senior honors thesis on Transitional Justice in Tunisia after the Arab Spring. She also studied Arabic and French languages. Maya was previously the Media Relations Coordinator for Foreign Affairs Magazine and part of the Global Communications and Media Relations team at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She is now an editorial assistant at Just Security. When not working, she enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and sampling bakeries around Brooklyn.