Paula Zhang is a second-year student concentrating in STIA. Her background is in foreign languages, international education, and public diplomacy, but she has loved exploring new skills like statistics and open data analysis. Prior to MSFS, she worked in student exchanges at AFS and American Councils for International Education, and she is an alum of TAPIF, Fulbright Uzbekistan, NYU, CLS Korean, and NSLI-Y Korean. She speaks French, Bosnian, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Korean, and Italian, and she has also studied German and Uzbek.