Country: India
University: Johns Hopkins University

Adyasha Mohanty is an Indian student pursuing Master of Arts in International Development at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She most recently lived in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Business Economics. Adyasha also studied abroad in Munich and London where she explored her interest in the interplay of economics with Middle Eastern geopolitics and European integration. She has worked as a research intern at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi and has extensive student leadership experience, her most favorite part of which has been providing teaching and curricular guidance to language coaches in a student-run language and culture sharing organization back in Rotterdam. In future she hopes to engage in social development policy in the international context. Her academic and professional interests aside, Adyasha enjoys traveling, learning about different cultures, writing poems and singing.