Emma Chevalier Trager-Lewis Member Profile

Location	New York , United States of America
Gender and Title	Female, she/her/hers
Email	emmalewis@nyu.edu
Telephone	+1(202)-696-7792
Website	https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-chevalier-trager-lewis-1188b5168/
Bio	I am a French/British graduate student at the Centre for Global Affairs at the School of Professional Studies at New York University majoring in Global Affairs and concentrating in Transnational Security and Peacebuilding. I have recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations with a minor in Law from SciencesPo, after having spent a year studying Peacebuilidng and Conflict Resolution at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.. As an aspiring war correspondent I aim at taking full advantage of my time at NYU's Centre for Global Affairs, in order to bring me one step closer to my life goal of sharing the stories of those who the general public too often decides to ignore. My research mostly focuses on mass displacement, refugees and forced migration, with a focus on all sorts of extremism and terrorism paired with a geographical specialisation on Sub-Saharan Africa and the Greater Middle East. Having spent time volunteering in Mavrovouni refugee camp, Europe's biggest refugee camp, located on the island of Lesvos in Greece, I often use what I have witnessed in Lesvos as empirical evidence in my research.

Expertise	Country	Affiliation	Local
Displacement	France, Greece
I have worked as a volunteer in Mavrovouni refugee camp on the island of Lesvos in Greece. As a volunteer, I was working inside of the camp which is closed to journalists and other members of the public. My time spent on Lesvos gave me tremendous insight on the European Union's asylum seeking policy. Volunteers in Mavrovouni have a privileged access to the reality of asylum seekers in the European Union. I have also worked as a tutor for newly arrived refugees in a refugee centre in Reims (France) during my undergraduate studies. As such, I have an insider's perspective on France's asylum system and was able to expand my understanding of the consequences of mass displacement.