Hannah Smith (She/Her) recently graduated in May of 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in the Global Studies program at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. With a passion for human trafficking prevention and response, Hannah completed her honors thesis on the negative effects of UN peacekeeping missions and solutions to these unintended effects. Hannah spent the past year researching sexual exploitation and abuse across all peacekeeping missions, with a special focus on the long-running MINUSTAH mission in Haiti. Hannah will soon be a VSFS intern with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Office of Peacekeeping Operations, where she will assist in daily operations, policy drafting, and preparation for the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial in Ghana. Hannah has focused on a community based approach within this research that she hopes will carry into her internship, in which community involvement through education on human rights will play the largest role in solutions to many of the larger problems faced during Peacekeeping operations. She hopes this can also be an approach for communities in the U.S. with a large placement of refugees and asylum seekers, because knowledge is power, and improvements can only be made when all community members are properly informed and educated on their rights as a human. Outside of classes and her internship, Hannah is the Store Manager at a local clothing store, an esports photographer, and is also a foster care case review volunteer with DCF of Massachusetts.