Janina Staguhn

Janina Staguhn is a research associate for the Project on Prosperity and Development (PPD) and Project on U.S. Leadership in Development (USLD) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she supports the projects’ research agenda and coordinates events. Prior to becoming a program coordinator in August 2019, she was a graduate student research assistant at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and a research associate at the Innovations for Peace and Development research lab. She also worked on the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and for the Colorado Democratic Party. Her research interests include conflict stabilization, forced migration, security policy, and human rights. She holds an M.A. in global policy studies from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in international studies and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.