Ella Bowie interviews Alicia Sanders-Zakre. Driven by years of peace activism, Washington-based Sanders-Zakre recently started a career in arms control and non-proliferation. They discuss the root of her interest in defence, the challenges of working for a think tank and her plans for the next stage of her career. 

London-based Andrea Berger started her career in non-proliferation as an intern the Royal United Services Institute before moving to the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. In the exclusive interview by Ella Bowie, she shares the skills she looks for in new hires, the challenges of working in a think tank and her reading list. 

Lucie Goulet interviews Feminist Foreign Policy founder & editor-in-chief Marissa Conway about her new website, masculinity in US defense intelligence and how she is planning to run a feminist website under the new Trump administration.

I still think that the US should take a lot more refugees. It's shameful that our quota is just 10,000 people. We’ve still only resettled up to 3,000 people in the States. In spite of all the efforts that we’ve been making in the humanitarian space, when the US doesn’t step up, other countries do not feel the need to do so either. With the Paris attacks and other terrorist incidents, there’s a tendency to say, 'Refugees are responsible'. But refugees are trying to get away from violence. The voyages are difficult and dangerous, and people are dying in droves.