Francesca Bentley

Washington, D.C. 847-***-**** adzexe@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

Student Consultant (Via Capstone Project), NATO Dec. 2022 - June. 2023

• Created policy solutions for NATO’s Emerging Technologies Innovation Unit, with three fellow Stanford graduate student consultants, surrounding the challenges of the duality of use for biotechnologies

• Crafted responsible use principles (will be published in the fall of 2023) for member states to pledge allegiance to and an internal education plan to illuminate the security risks of biotech to country delegates and NATO leadership Public Policy Research Assistant & Consultant, National Journal June 2022 - Sep. 2022

• Worked closely with analysts, the Senior Director of New Products & Consulting, and the President of National Journal Research to create analytic memos describing engagement benefits and risks for corporate clients interested in corporate social responsibility

• Tracked federal and state legislation in order to enable clients to make well-informed estimates about what legal issues may arise in their ecosystem

Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Feb. 2021 – Aug. 2021

• Collected financial and voting-related data, in collaboration with the co-founder of Progressive Shopper, to uncover companies’ spending habits toward lobbying groups and congressional campaigns

• Brainstormed with co-founder of Progressive Shopper and MIT researcher, Dr. Rigobon, on how to quantify companies’ commitment to social justice causes as a means to facilitate conscious consumption by consumers Reporting Fellow, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting June 2020 – Oct. 2020

• Published an article, in November 2020, highlighting the voices of African refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers and their experiences navigating their transition to overwhelmingly majority white states in the midst of America’s reckoning with racism

• Article was included in several Pulitzer Center partnering schools’ lesson plans, for grades 2-12, in order to discuss the unrefined reality of race in America

Research Fellow, University of California San Diego May 2020 – Aug. 2020

• Nominated by Spelman College political science faculty to assist Dr. Erik Gartzke and his team at the Center for Peace and Security Studies by gathering information on foreign countries’ nuclear platforms

• Conducted a research project, supported by R programming, which examined the morality of nuclear warfare by investigating how a state’s level of care for its citizens interacts with a country’s nuclear force structure selections LEADERSHIP/ VOLUNTEERISM

Teacher, Stanford Jail & Prison Education Project (SJPEP) Aug. 2022 – Dec. 2022

• Led and worked with a teaching team of three Stanford graduate students, for eight weeks, and taught a seminar course on climate change and conflict, inside a local San Mateo jail, to a class of 25 students

• Constructed a detailed lesson plan, gathered documents and materials for the course, led a two hour class, and attended class weekly as a teacher aid during the weeks I did not act as team lead Educational Outreach Presenter, Pulitzer Center March 2021 - Present

• Assists the Pulitzer Center’s educational outreach team by presenting my article and experience as a journalist, for the Center, to classrooms (grades 2-12) and enlighten students on how to engage with complex underreported issues Stanford University Stanford, CA

Masters of International Policy Class of June, 2023 Concentration: International Security

Spelman College Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Class of May, 2021 Minor: Psychology

Summa Cum Laude

AWARDS

• Top Ten Graduate

• Phi Beta Kappa

SKILLS

• Cross-team collaboration

• Intermediate Spanish

• R programming

• Policy research

• Memo writing

• Legislative tracking /

research

• Mark of Excellence Award (issued by the

Society of Professional Journalists)

• Publication in the Fall 2019 Spelman

Undergraduate Research Journal

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