Dina Abdulhadi graduated from the University of Georgia in 2013 with a B.S. in Ecology. Through the Roosevelt Institute and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, she conducted policy research on national science funding and biofuel development in Georgia. She has also worked at laboratories at UGA and the Environmental Protection Agency. Conservation policy, international development, and applications of science research are her main interests, but she also enjoys dancing (swing, tango, blues, randomly flailing around) and photography.