Lauren Manion

Area of Expertise:

• Government, Governance, Reforms
• Human Rights, Law, Migration, Conflicts, Justice
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis

Professional Experience:

Most recently worked as a research intern at the University of Maryland Applied Research Lab for Intelligence & Security on the Changing Motivations in Insider Threats Project over the summer, 2022. There I worked as part of a small team of interns that researched and investigated insider threat/espionage case studies over the past 70 years and compared stated motivations of individuals to determine if previously established frameworks are still applicable. During that same summer I was also a Researcher and contributing author on United States’ Compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Racial Discrimination & Equity in the United States: Evidence from Pittsburgh Shadow Report to the 10th-12th Periodic Reports of the United States 107th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Geneva, August 2022 and United States’ Compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination A Cross-City Report on Obstacles to U.S. Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination & how Human Rights Cities Can be a Remedy NGO Shadow Report on the 10th -12th Periodic Reports of the United States for the 107th Session of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Geneva, August 2022, Before attending graduate school I worked as a geologist for XTO Energy/ExxonMobil from July 2008 until I left to return to graduate school June 2021. Prior to ExxonMobil I worked as an oil and gas geologist for Linn Energy (2006-2008) and as an environmental geologist for Science Applications International Corporation (2004-2006).