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Nealin Parker is a Lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a joint appointment at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, serving as the Director of the Bridging Divides Initiative. She teaches courses on political polarization and conflict transformation, refugees, and management of aid in countries in crisis.

Prior to this, Nealin served in the Obama Administration as Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Acting Director of the Office of Transition Initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID/OTI), which is the office designed to provide rapid response to political crises globally.

Nealin earned a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from the University of Virginia.

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