In this episode, we speak with Isabella Aung on her experiences in Burma and growing up in the US and Canada.

Isabella Aung is a doctoral candidate in Political Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research focuses on how contemporary authoritarian power is both contested and sustained through social media and how this process is gendered. Born in Myanmar, Isabella migrated to the United States as a young teen. She later moved to Canada to pursue her graduate studies. She is currently a UBC Myanmar Initiative Fellow, a Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York, an inaugural Public Scholarship Fellow at Queen's University, a Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute Fellow, and a Myanmar Policy and Community Knowledge Hub (MyPACK) Fellow at the University of Toronto. She is also the Head of the Comparative Politics Diploma Program at Spring University Myanmar, which provides youth in and from Myanmar access to university-level education during the current political crisis.

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