Originally from London and Toronto, Leighton Symons is a rising senior in the History Department. Her academic interests include British history, colonialism’s impact on modern state-building and Canada’s role on the global stage. This summer, she will work as a Joseph S. Nye, Jr. National Security Intern at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) with the Transatlantic Security Program. Last summer, Leighton interned at Kenya Scholars Access Program (KenSAP) in Eldoret, Kenya, a nonprofit college access program that helps high-achieving, low-income Kenyan students gain admission to selective universities in North America and in the summer of 2022, she studied microeconomics and political economy at the London School of Economics. On campus, Leighton is a Managing Editor of the Princeton Historical Review, Project Manager at the Princeton Nonprofit Consulting Club and a member of the Women’s Club Soccer team.