About

Jeffrey Stern is a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation, and a Master’s Candidate at the Stanford University International Policy Studies Program. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received a degree in Public Policy Studies and a certificate in media and democracy from Duke University. After college, he covered the war in Afghanistan and the conflict in Kashmir as a freelance journalist, while working for the American University of Afghanistan as it launched its Professional Development Institute, and a women’s business training program affiliated Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative.

Most recently, he worked for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia as international engagement manager, designing a program that provides civic education to, end exchange with, democracies in the developing world. The project partnered a religious minority community in Afghanistan with an inner city school in Philadelphia, and culminated in an interactive museum exhibition featuring the student’s work, appearing simultaneously in Kabul and Philadelphia.