Inesha Premaratne

Growing up in both Sri Lanka and Hawaii, Inesha has always enjoyed what she likes to call traveling between worlds. It’s a love that has made her all the more passionate about studying international relations and American foreign policy. A sophomore at Harvard, Inesha is concentrating in Government with a secondary in Economics. Having just spent the fall of 2012 interning at the White House and watching the presidential election unfold from a most unique vantage point, Inesha is back on campus where she chairs the Institute of Politics Women’s Initiative in Leadership, a position that allows her to talk about an issue area she cares deeply about: women’s empowerment in the developing and developed worlds.