Theodora Skeadas is an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she has worked on issues of business strategy and innovation, cyber security, and counter-terrorism. She also works as an independent political consultant, having strategically advised and managed campaigns for Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor and Cambridge City Council. Ms. Skeadas recently graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Master in Public Policy, where she studied International Trade and Finance. Prior to HKS, she worked in Turkey and Iraq on a Fulbright Fellowship, and in Morocco and the West Bank with non-governmental organizations on issues of community empowerment, conflict resolution, and poverty alleviation. Ms. Skeadas graduated from Harvard College in 2012 with a B.A. in Philosophy and Government, and minors in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Modern Standard Arabic, and Modern Greek. Ms. Skeadas has studied French, Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Greek, Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, and Turkish. In her free time, she enjoys running, mountaineering, traveling, and reading.