Growing up, I was confronted early and forcefully with issues of gender, sexuality and discrimination, and Sciences Po gave me the space to turn that lived experience into rigorous analysis. Pursuing the Advanced Certification alongside my Master's in International Security therefore felt like the natural next step. At a time when human rights are increasingly at risk, I wanted the tools to keep pushing a gender lens into spaces, like security and defence, where it is too often overlooked. 

"Gender in Emergencies: Rapid Gender Analysis” taught by Professor Isadora QUAY left the deepest mark. The course walked us through the RGA methodology step by step, teaching us to map who is most at risk in a crisis, from access to food and shelter to exposure to gender-based violence, and to translate that mapping into concrete recommendations for humanitarian response. I believe this course is what pushed me from being a passive ally into thinking like an activist. 

I am now weighing two paths: either joining the workforce to put this dual expertise in security and gender to immediate use, or extending my Grand Oral research on the gendered harms of the privatisation of security into a PhD. But whichever path I take, my commitment to gender and development won't change. In a moment where our rights feel increasingly precarious, I want to keep fighting for those whose voices are silenced, whose suffering goes uncounted, and who the world risks forgetting entirely. That's the responsibility I carry forward as a feminist and an activist for women's, queer and human rights everywhere.