About
Rabhya Mehrotra is a Mitchell Scholar, one of twelve Americans selected to study in Ireland by the US-Ireland Alliance. At DCU, she is pursuing a Masters' in Political Communication. She graduated from Yale University in December 2022 with degrees in computer science and political science. Using her hybrid academic background, she hopes to research how democracy reform can address democratic backsliding and empower citizens. At Yale, she served as the co-director of the Yale Politics Initiative and the co-opinion editor at the Yale Daily News, creating the first independent editorial board. In the summer of 2021, she lived in Iceland, studying the country’s 2010 constitutional reform process, which used citizen-drafters instead of politicians. For her senior thesis, she expanded upon her research in Iceland by using artificial intelligence to analyze Icelandic media. At FuJo, she is a part of the COMDEL team, studying the interactions between climate policy, climate misinformation, and climate citizen's assemblies.