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is a first-year Ed.D. student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education studying higher education with a focus on international and branch campuses of U.S. technical universities. Before enrolling at Harvard, Dara completed her masters of science in Technology and Policy with a concentration in Engineering Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she served as a graduate research assistant to the MIT Collaboration with the new Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In addition to her particpation in higher education professional activities, Dara has worked in several science policy roles in Washington, DC, including at the National Research Council and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dara's undergraduate degree is from the University of Michigan, where she studied Earth Systems Science Engineering with a focus on science and space policy issues. During her time at Michigan, Dara served as student body president of the Michigan College of Engineering.