Through a senior thesis, a D.C. internship, and global connections, A&L senior prepares to take on the nuclear crisis
Adah McMillan
Having grown up in both Louisiana and Morocco, Faiza Filali arrived at Notre Dame as a speaker of seven languages with plenty of global experience. So when she started planning her academic path in international politics, she could’ve easily gotten a head start in a number of specialties.
But instead, Filali used her background to decide what not to do.
“I was interested in building expertise in a really specific region that I had no natural correlation to,” she said.
Because she spoke English..