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About Me

Meklit Abebe is a published writer, mentor, and student. She intends to pursue international law, focusing on legal frameworks that improve gender outcomes and enable developing states to exert sovereign control over their natural resources.Her original research, conducted at the Library of Congress, is an independent research thesis entitled “Printing Nasser: The Periodical as a Political Tool in Late Modern Egypt, 1954-1967.” This work has been featured at Yale University and UMBC (forthcoming presentation). Meklit received outstanding recognition from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the International Organization for Youth, for her contribution as a distinguished panelist at a conference with 400,000+ delegates across 171+ countries.Meklit's academic specialization centers on population, labor protections for women in the global economy, and natural resource management. She is one of 9 scholars for the Media Mapper project at UPenn's Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC). She is currently engineering a geospatial dataset for the Aqueous Earth Catalog, mapping Blue Humanities and state-controlled water bodies.Meklit has established meaningful associations with the International Rescue Committee, the Boston Area Research Initiative, Diplomats Without Borders, the UN Foundation (Shot@Life campaign), UNICEF, UNHCR, and the U.S. Department of State, among others. She currently serves as an ambassador for both the Institute for Economics and Peace and TheirWorld, and was a former Arabic scholar at the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center and staff columnist for NUPR. She is the founder and editor of Diplomatic Dispatch, the global quarterly newsletter for Diplomats Without Borders.