Erin Biel

Erin Biel, ES ’13, is an Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Global Affairs double major. Erin has primarily focused on forced migration and refugee issues, working with the Yale Law School’s Iraqi Refugee Assistance project both in New Haven and in Cairo, Egypt, where she studied abroad. She wrote her senior thesis juxtaposing the Shan ethno-nationalist movement with the contemporaneous Burmese nationalist movement in Myanmar from the 1920s-1970s. She will be working in Thailand with Burmese migrants after graduation in May 2013 through one of Yale’s Charles P. Howland Fellowships for public service.