Olivia Mitchell is a master’s student in the Davis Center’s REECA program, specialising in geopolitics, international relations, disinformation, and gender in Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia. She graduated with first class B.A. honors from the University of Cambridge in Russian and history. As a part of her undergraduate studies she spent a year abroad in Kazakhstan and Georgia, where she studied Russian and worked on a year-abroad thesis about female Kazakh literature. Olivia aims to pursue a career in the international geopolitical sphere.