Lily Flick is a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) candidate at Georgetown University with a concentration in Global Politics and Security. She focuses on geopolitics and great power competition in the Levant as well as refugee policy and social movements in North Africa. Lily lived in Amman, Jordan for nine months as a CASA I Arabic Fellow. She has interned for the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in addition to various MENA-focused and international relations think tanks.
Lily graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, with degrees in Global Studies and Arabic. During her undergraduate education, she worked as a research assistant with the Center for Middle East Development, focusing on U.S. foreign policy towards Palestine and Israel, and she completed her thesis on the role of cyber activism and digital 'hyperconnectivity' during the 2010 and 2011 protest movements in Tunisia and Egypt. Lily is from Philadelphia and is an avid lover of film photography and carrot cake.