Chelsea Estevez is a junior at Dartmouth College double- majoring in Arabic and French Language, with a minor in Government. She hails from East Norwich, New York where she graduated valedictorian of Portledge School. Because of her fervid passion for languages, she started taking Arabic as a freshman while continuing her study of French. During her junior fall, she studied at the University of Jordan in Amman researching changes to the new Press and Publication Law and Political Transformations in the Middle East. She has also spent a term in Paris studying French culture, history and civilization at the height of France’s presidential elections. Her true ambition lies in promoting democracy, development, and women empowerment in disenfranchised regions. After graduating, Chelsea hopes to pursue these causes and enact change the Middle East and North Africa either through direct service or institutional policy reform. Chelsea was funded by the Rockefeller Center for a summer 2013 internship, with generous support from the Class of 1954 in honor of Ronald A. Jabara ’54. Executive Summary from Chelsea’s final report: The Washington Institute is a non-profit think tank that strives to promote an accurate understanding of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for policy makers and the general public alike. As a Research Assistant, I was in charge of conducting research and collaborating with the Senior Fellows who publish articles pertaining to that research. The New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and other prominent media outlets frequently picked up these articles, so the ideas we generated were dispersed to a large portion of the population. We also had meetings with top officials who informed us of the situation on the ground. This was incredibly interesting because we “Carrying out daily research at TWI about the current affairs in the Middle East and North Africa elucidated a great deal and gave me a foundation upon which I can better compose my thesis research.” [THE RONALD A. JABARA ’54 ROCKEFELLER CENTER INTERNSHIP PROFILE]