Layla Elkhan graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University with a B.A. in International Studies with a focus in Global Diplomacy and a B.A. in French language. During her undergraduate studies, she completed a capstone thesis on the effects of transnational organized crime on global stability and analyzed the United Nations’ response to them. She also completed a second capstone thesis on the role of the French language on the various waves of educational reform in Morocco from the protectorate era to today. Through her undergraduate years, she was able to serve as the Louisiana coordinator for the American Red Cross’s International Humanitarian Law Youth Action Campaign as well as intern for the U.S. State Department as a Human Rights Report Intern for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. As an IILJ Scholar, Layla seeks to address global development and human rights issues as a means to provide baseline material autonomy to the Global South.