Zia Saylor graduated from Williams College with a BA in Economics and Political Science with honors and received her MSc in Public Policy from the University of Bristol as a Fulbright Scholar. She has previously published an Op-Ed in The Los Angeles Times, fiction in the SteamTicket Literary Anthology, and original research in Illinois Wesleyan University's Undergraduate Economic Review and American Mathematical Monthly. She is currently pursing a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bristol. Views and opinions expressed are her own.