Masha is a second year MSFS student concentrating in Global Business, Finance & Society. Masha is originally from Moscow, Russia but she spent five years studying in South Korea before coming to the U.S. for college. Growing up in Russia and Korea to an American father and a Japanese mother, she speaks Russian, Japanese, Korean, and French (which she studied in college).

Prior to coming to Georgetown, Masha studied Public Policy and Russian Studies at Duke University. As an undergraduate student, she had the privilege of spending a semester in St. Petersburg, Russia; Aix-en-Provence, France; and Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission, where she became interested in the intersection between government and business. Today, Masha is working towards her dream of joining the Foreign Service as an Economic Officer. During the spring semester of her first year at MSFS, she interned at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she worked on a project to expand American small modular nuclear reactors in Romania. She is also the president of Georgetown’s student organization for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian affairs called PREEA. She is currently interning at the World Bank’s Ethics and Business Conduct Division.

"I originally chose MSFS because it is one of the top graduate programs for international affairs in the world. Georgetown’s location in Washington, D.C. meant that the students would get exposed to stellar adjunct professors and fascinating speakers. However, I learned that the best thing about MSFS is its people. The students and professors here are incredibly worldly, intelligent, and compassionate, and I’ve met people here who are certain to become my lifelong friends and mentors."