Sophia Alicea - Research Fellow

Sophia Alicea is the Junior Reseach Fellow at NAVI Research Institute and a Diplomacy and International Law student at the University of New York Prague. She was recently appointed as the 15th Youth Observer to the United Nations by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. Previously, she served as a Regional Security Studies Fellow at NAVI, a Young Leader in Foreign and Security Policy Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and an Africa Fellow at the Babel Institute. Her work focuses on terrorism, maritime security, and religious extremism, with particular attention to instability across the Gulf of Aden, Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the broader MENA and Sahel regions. Her writing has appeared in the Harvard College Law Review, Modern Treatise, International Policy Digest, and The Diplomatic Envoy.