Adviser: Dr. Maria Rendon, ISD Director of McHenry Fellows, former USAID Foreign Service Officer

Topic: Seeding Terror: Evaluating Diplomatic Approaches to the Taliban’s Agricultural Legitimization Strategy

Miranda Felton is a second-year M.A. student in the Security Studies Program. She graduated from Georgetown’s BSFS program in 2021 and is primarily interested in interactions between conflict and agriculture. Miranda has previously worked for GU’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS); GU’s Center for Security Studies; the International Institute of Minnesota; and for her family farm. She is also a 2021-2022 DACOR Bacon House Foundation Fellow.