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Sarah MacHarg is a first-year M.P.P candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy. She is from Reno, Nevada. Her interests include U.S.-China relations, international conflict resolution, sustainable development, and the intersection of these three issues.

Prior to joining Harris, Sarah attended Stanford University, where she received a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Political Science. During her time as an undergraduate, she completed internships at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), the East Asia Institute, Alariss Global, and the National Institutes of Health. She also conducted or assisted in research on networked authoritarianism, regime stability, and border contestation. 

Outside of academics, she spent much of her time dancing with Stanford Bhangra, a competitive Punjabi folk dance team, and singing with Stanford O-Tone, an East Asian interest a cappella group that performs music in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, and English. 

Prior to her time at Stanford, Sarah spent an academic year studying Mandarin in Beijing, China through the U.S. State Department's National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) scholarship. Sarah is proficient in Mandarin and Spanish.