
The 17th Masthead of the YRIS (2025-2026)
Editorial Team
Editors-in-Chief:
Isabel Mestey-Colon and Vittal Sivakumar
Managing Editors:
Kate Bingham and William Zhang
Deputy Managing Editor:
Lukas Koutsoukos
Head Design Editors:
Yasmine Samolada and Camille Roussel
Americas Desk Heads:
Cielo Gazard and Nina Feliciano-Batista
Asia Desk Heads:
Samuel Sanders and William Trinh
Europe Desk Heads:
Sofiia Tiapkina and Daniel Robaina
Middle East and Africa Desk Heads:
Anping Zhu and Yasmine Samolada
Business Team
Publisher:
Benjamin Nuland
Deputy Publisher:
Leonardo Ladeira
Social Chair:
Julia Niemiec
Interviews and Events Director:
Ben Plana Trajtenberg
Marketing and Outreach Director:
Miyu Sarumida
Finance Director:
Meetii Tufa
To contact the board, please email us at yris@yira.org
Past YRIS Editorial Boards
YRIS 16th Masthead (2024-2025)
Editors-in-Chief: Beckett Elkins and Hailey Seo
Managing Editors: Isabel Mestey-Colon and Vittal Sivakumar
Desk Heads: Kate Bingham, Vidhi Bhartiya, Nilab Ahmed, Christian Baca, Sydney Simpson
Head Design Editor: Estelle Balsirow
Outreach and Marketing Director: Dareia Hadjiemmanuil
Assistant Outreach and Marketing Director: Benjamin M. Nuland
Finance Director: Ben Plana Trajtenberg
Interviews and Events Director: Owen Haywood
Assistant Interviews and Events Director: Abla Abdulkadir
Social Chair: Riley Avelar
YRIS 15th Masthead (2023-2024)
Editors-in-Chief: Cormac Thorpe and Sreenivas Kuntamukkala
Managing Desk Editor: Beckett Elkins, Elizabeth Dejanikus
Assistant Desk Editors: Assistant Desk Editors:
Megan Wright, Lauren Cho, Isabel Mestey-Colon, Noor Kareem, Vittal Sivakumar, Vidhi Bhartiya, Ari Nagle
Publisher: Beckett Elkins
Head Design Editors: Jeremy Williams
Outreach and Marketing Director: Hailey Seo
Interviews and Events Director: Owen Haywood
Assistant Interviews and Events Director: Abla Abdulkadir
International Liaison: Ethan Chiu
Social Chair: Luis Tomas Orozco
YRIS 14th Masthead (2022-2023)
Editors-in-Chief: Maya Albold and Faisal Bandar
Managing Desk Editor: Liam Will
Assistant Desk Editor: Lucas Miner
Online Managing Editor: Anjali Mangla
Assistant Online Editors: Yule Zhang, Ethan Chiu, Noor Kareem
Publisher: Adia Keene
Head Design Editors: Kaleb Assefa, Jeremy Williams
Design Contributor: Alex Nelson
Outreach and Marketing Director: Sreenivas Kuntamukkala
Interviews Director: Ilan-Dubler Furman
International Liaison: Cormac Thorpe
YRIS 13th Masthead (2022-2023)
Editors-in-Chief: Maya Albold and Faisal Bandar
Managing Desk Editor: Liam Will
Assistant Desk Editor: Lucas Miner
Online Managing Editor: Anjali Mangla
Assistant Online Editors: Yule Zhang, Ethan Chiu, Noor Kareem
Publisher: Adia Keene
Head Design Editors: Kaleb Assefa, Jeremy Williams
Design Contributor: Alex Nelson
Outreach and Marketing Director: Sreenivas Kuntamukkala
Interviews Director: Ilan-Dubler Furman
International Liaison: Cormac Thorpe
YRIS 12th Masthead (2021-2022)
Editors-in-Chief: Vishwa Padigepati and Blake Bridge
Managing Editors: Alizeh Yahya, Maya Albold, Natalie Simpson, Sai Rayala, Cameron Freeman
Head Design Editor: Chanwook Park
Assistant Design Editors: Amanda Lawless, Jeremy Williams
Outreach Director: Faisal Bandar
International Liaison: Liam Will
Academic Advisors
Amanda Behm, Associate Director, International Security Studies, Yale University
Beverly Gage, Professor of History, Yale University
Clare Lockhart, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; Director and co-Founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE)
Dr. Isaiah Wilson III, Senior Lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; Colonel, U.S. Army, retired; Director of the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and USAWC Press at the US Army War College
Julia Adams, Professor of Sociology and International & Area Studies; Head of College, Grace Hopper College; Co-director of YaleCHESS (Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences)
Ryan Crocker, Kissinger Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University
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