Kristina Arakelyan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is a long-time New Yorker who has worked for over a decade in the public and nonprofit sectors on immigration, social service, domestic violence, human trafficking, and labor policies and programs. She holds an A.B. in Philosophy from Harvard College, an M.A. in European & Russian Studies from Yale University, an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, and an MPH from the University of Edinburgh.