I am a first-year PhD student in World History at Northeastern University. I graduated with a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park. After college, I became a community journalist in Wareham, Massachusetts where I loved reporting on the small-town dynamics of main street revitalization projects, town meeting battles over public school funding, and the surprisingly frequent controversies surrounding local politicians. I am a dedicated teacher, and first set foot into the profession by teaching ESL to middle school students in Japan. Over the past half-decade, I have expanded my pedagogical repertoire by teaching history, government, and economics to high school students with learning differences. My research interests lie in investigating how leftist ideology influenced anti-colonial movements in South Asia and the factors, both global and local, that influenced their successes and failures.