Lily Hindy

Lily Hindy is a PhD candidate in history at UCLA. Her dissertation examines how the Kurdish nationalist movement in Iraq and in the diaspora harnessed the bureaucracy of human rights to gain international attention for their plight and support for autonomy between 1975 and 2005. Prior to UCLA she was a foreign policy associate at The Century Foundation and an editorial assistant at the Associated Press. She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in government from Smith College.