Samantha Gildea is completing a double major in International Studies and Russian Studies at the University of Florida this year. She is the President of the UF JQAS chapter, which she founded in the winter of 2020 after concluding her internship in Washington D.C. with the Department of State. Samantha has an academic focus in foreign policy analysis and Russian-US relations, but spends her free time playing guitar and laughing at her cat Inanna.