Joyce Yang is a junior from Bartlesville, Oklahoma studying in the School of Public and International Affairs and minoring in History. Joyce is interested in the role of commerce and trade within diplomacy and security. This past summer, Joyce interned at the Cohen Group—a geopolitical risk consulting firm founded by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen—where she analyzed the impacts of geopolitical shifts on the private sector. She was previously an intern at the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration where worked on behalf of the US government in engagements with foreign governments, businesses, and industries. At Princeton, she is the co-President of Alexander Hamilton Society, helps design crisis and grand strategy simulations as an Undergraduate Fellow at the Center of International Security Studies, and was the Assistant Director for Executive Relations of Design Nation—a premier college conference on the intersection of business and design. In Oklahoma, she was active in education policy and acted as the student canvasser to help pass a $38 million school bond. Joyce was named a 2022 Kennedy Center International Young Soloist and a 2023 US Presidential Scholar. She speaks English, Chinese and Spanish.