Rachael L.M. Merritt, Grand Rapids, is a senior at the University of Michigan, where she majors in International Studies and Russian Language and Culture. She has also studied at two Russian universities. She is currently doing research on human trafficking in Central Asia and has published articles on global threats to democracy. Rachael writes guitar music and is a founding member of a project that gives student films from Russia greater visibility. She is passionate about digital democracy, internet rights, and providing voices for the underrepresented. Rachael will do the MSc in Russian and Eastern European Studies and the MSc in Social Science and the Internet at Oxford.