Maya Guzdar is a senior at Stanford University majoring in International Relations and minoring in Human Rights.  She has helped found an initiative to reform the U.S. international development space, Unlock Aid. She has been published in Foreign Policy and The New York Times advocating for policy reform and increased diversity within the national security space. Maya is a co-founder of the non-profit Piedmont for Oakland Schools (POPS), an organization that advances educational equity within her community. As a Schwarzman Scholar, Maya plans to explore the intersection of American domestic politics in shaping U.S. security policy toward China. Maya is from the United States.