Priya Vithani is a twenty-six year old Middle East and entrepreneurship enthusiast from Virginia. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 2013 with a major in "Human Rights in the Middle East," Priya moved to Washington D.C. to start graduate school at George Washington University. Through her graduate program, Priya explored the connections between entrepreneurship and democratic development in the Middle East and North Africa region. While in school, Priya also worked as a desk officer at the U.S. Department of State, covering the North Africa region for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Priya has lived in Jordan and Egypt before and speaks Arabic. In her spare time, she enjoys political satire, traveling, trying new foods, and hip hop (both dance and music).