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Kaylyn Ahn is a Marshall and a Truman Scholar (IL-24). She studies social policy and legal studies at Northwestern University. She was a Gilman Scholar to Ecuador and appeared on GLAAD’s 2021 list of 20 Under 20 LGBTQ+ Activists. At Northwestern, Kaylyn is co-president of Northwestern’s Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership was a Debarry Civic Scholar, a member of the inaugural Emerging Scholars cohort, and will travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia this winter on an International Senior Thesis Grant from the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs to conduct archival legal research on international criminal law. In the summer of 2023, Kaylyn worked at the US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights and interned in the economic office of the US Diplomatic Mission to South Africa in Pretoria in summer 2024.