Lily Hindy

Lily Hindy is a PhD student in history at UCLA whose research focuses on issues of national identity in the modern Middle East, specifically looking at the relationship between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish population of Iraq under Ba'ath Party rule. Before coming to UCLA, Lily was senior foreign policy associate at The Century Foundation, and she previously worked as an editorial assistant on the international desk of Associated Press in New York. She also spent five years in the nonprofit sector where she held the position of Deputy Director at RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues), which provides emergency medical training to independent journalists working in conflict zones and remote areas.