Colloquium | Members

Kai-Moritz Keller

TA

Kai is a second-year MALD student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he focuses on Global Health and International Negotiation. He has a particular interest in Private-Public Partnerships in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Prior to Fletcher, he spent seven years trading global equities for different investment banks in New York City. Kai grew up in Bielefeld, Germany and came to the US following his Abitur and a year of community service. He has since been naturalized and holds dual US-German citizenship. This summer he was selected for Atlantik-Bruecke's Young Leaders program, and his ongoing engagement in the transatlantic dialogue is driven by his acute interest in TTIP and the role of China in the future of US-European relations. Kai holds a B.A. in Economics and Politics from Brandeis University and is a competitive epee fencer.
 

Elizabeth Keys

Elizabeth is a junior at Tufts double majoring in economics and community health and is on the premed track.  She is from friendly Cincinnati, Ohio and holds dual citizenship from the United States and the United Kingdom.  She grew up loving to read Shakespeare and dancing tap, ballet, jazz, and hip hop.  Elizabeth plays the bassoon, saxophone, piano, violin, and oboe, and enjoys conducting.  Outside of class, Elizabeth sails on Tufts varsity sailing team, serves on the board of The Sharewood Project (the only free healthcare clinic in the Boston area), and is an acquisitions editor for the TuftScope journal.  She works as a research assistant studying tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in European Union and United States policy.  Elizabeth greatly looks forward to the entire EPIIC experience and the dynamic, pioneering individuals whom she will meet!

Minkyung Kim

Teaching Assistant

Minkyung Kim is a second-year student at Fletcher, concentrating in international security studies. As an undergraduate in South Korea, she majored in Russian language and literature and spent one year studying in St. Petersburg as an exchange student. At that time, communism and capitalism were coexisting in the country as part of the transition after the end of the USSR. She enjoyed Russian culture and arts and worked as a guide and interpreter for Russian delegation visits to Korea. At Fletcher, she is studying the possible role that the Russian intelligence community may have played in the Ukraine conflict. Having visited Europe and now studying in the US, she sees that many people still are uninformed about Russia, which is why she is so excited to be part of EPIIC and help raise awareness.

Tara Kola

Tara Kola is a sophomore majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Chinese. She was born and raised in Saratoga, California, but moved to Bangalore, India at the age of 13. Being deeply integrated in both Western and Eastern culture kindled her interest in differences in the perception of the relationship between the body and the mind, and the individual and the environment. A primary area of interest in global health is medical anthropology, and the place of indigenous health systems and practices in an increasingly Westernized medical landscape. She is also interested in health informatics, particularly the use of computational methods in medical decision-making, and understanding the interconnected causes of disease. In the future, she hopes to work on improving preventative, proactive care in societies focused on responsive attention. At Tufts, she is also a Synaptic Scholar, and enjoys climbing mountains in New Hampshire, running as means of urban exploration, and discovering the foods, books, and histories of Boston by foot.

Maxim Kondratenko

Maxim is a senior majoring in International Relations with a focus in International Security. He was born in Moscow, but has lived in the United States since he was five. At Tufts, Maxim is involved with the Taekwondo team and the university’s fundraising program. He speaks English, Russian, French, and some Spanish. As part of EPIIC, Maxim is hoping to learn more about the challenges facing Russia today, as well as the motivations behind its foreign policy decisions. He is especially interested in the current crisis in Ukraine, and what impact it will ultimately have on relations between Russia and the rest of Europe. Maxim enjoys reading, traveling, and martial arts.

Ethan Krauss

Ethan is a senior at Tufts from Anchorage, Alaska. Majoring in international relations and Russian studies, Ethan participated in EPIIC last year, which focused on the future of Russia. Additionally, Ethan is a member of the Stanford-U.S. Russia Forum as a member of a research group also focusing on the future of Europe. Ethan spent this past summer interning on a development project in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and the summer prior on a Critical Language Scholarship in Tbilisi, Georgia. This year, Ethan is interested in investigating various aspects of Russia's relationship with Europe, particularly in regards to collective security policies in central, eastern and northern Europe. Beyond academics, Ethan enjoys watching sports, exploring Boston and is optimistic about learning how to cook.

Benya Kraus

Benya Kraus is a freshman at Tufts University planning to major in International Relations with a concentration in US Foreign Policy.  She is a Thai-American citizen, growing up in Switzerland, Vietnam, Thailand, and the United States. She went to high school at the International School of Bangkok and was actively engaged in political advocacy and social activism as President of her school's Amnesty International club.  Under her leadership, the club received the 2012 Youth Activist Award presented by Amnesty International Thailand.  Individually, she has been awarded the EARCOS Global Citizenship Award in 2013 and the CIS International Student Award in 2014 for her service in the school and Bangkok community.  At Tufts, she serves on the Senate and participates in the spoken word society on campus.  

Ethan Krauss

Ethan Krauss is an undergraduate at Tufts University from Anchorage, Alaska. Majoring in International Relations and Russian and Eastern European studies, Ethan is particularly interested in domestic issues, particularly entrepreneurial enterprise, within Russia, as well as Arctic security issues. Having looked at Russia for 13 years from his back yard, Ethan is particularly excited to continue studies on the region. Ethan spent this summer in Tbilisi, Georgia after receiving a Critical Language Scholarship for Russian. In his spare time, Ethan participates in the Russian and Slavic Student Association and can be found behind a cup of espresso or looking for Boston’s best Indian food.

Mile Krstev

Mile is a freshman at Tufts from Macedonia. He is interested in pursuing a major in environmental engineering and a minor in Spanish. Before coming to Tufts, Mile spent two years at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, where he got his International Baccalaureate. After graduating from UWC, he went on to take a gap year. For three years in a row he has organized and led a service-based learning project for UWC students in the Ex-Yugoslav countries, with a focus on Macedonia. During his gap year, he attended several youth exchanges, training courses as well as a European Voluntary Service project, which form part of the Erasmus+ program of the Council of Europe. Through these projects, he had the chance to pursue his interests in European politics, human rights, minority issues and inclusion policies. He is also passionate about Balkan history, sustainability issues and linguistics and loves learning new languages. Mile is very excited to be part of this year's colloquium on the Future of Europe and expects to expand his views on current European affairs through a critical approach and discussion with the other colloquium members.

Jérôme Krumenacker

Jérôme is a senior at Tufts majoring in International Relations, with a focus on East Asia, and in Japanese. Born in Paris, he moved to Philadelphia when he was four and has lived there since, though he maintains close family and cultural ties to France. In his time at Tufts, he has focused almost exclusively on Asian relations and culture, but is overjoyed to join EPIIC this year and to dive headfirst into the countless and seemingly overwhelming problems currently facing Europe. As a citizen of the EU and with a personal stake in its rapidly shifting social landscape, he is interested in studying Europe, particularly France's, minority and immigrant populations and the way they are perceived by older variants of European society. He is also looking for intellectual fodder to fuel arguments with his parents at the dinner table. His hobbies include baking, backpacking, land conservation, urban exploration, and judo.