Vice President, Policy Media Publishing

Katelin Wong

Katelin attends Cornell University, majoring in public policy, and intends to pursue a career in international law.

She is interested in international human rights reform around the world and voting rights reform in the United States. Katelin also enjoys reading, trying new food, and hanging out with friends during her free time.

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Solutions to Stopping United States Political Polarization

Capstone Project

This brief explains how the United States’ political primary structure creates radical politicians through party primaries, which allow a marginal faction of extreme voters to choose a candidate for the general election. This leads to intense polarization as each party selects a candidate most suited to their interests, killing American centrism.

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Choice: More for Some, Less for Others

Economic Policy

Katelin Wong

When the importance of freedom and autonomy is embedded in the U.S Constitution, the plain assumption is that choice lends to greater well-being. But is choice distributed equally among all people, or should it be considered a privilege? Is choice always a good thing? While the syllogism at the beginning of Markus and Schwartz’s “Does Choice Mean Freedom and Well-Being?” implies that having choice shows signs of freedom, this preconceived notion is not always true. How much choice one has is significantly contingent on culture and socioeconomic class. Although having the ability to choose is a positive thing, the inequality and the lack of opportunity that make mobility more difficult in North America leads to the asymmetric levels of choice available for each socioeconomic class.

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Democracy x AI: Repercussions and Regulation

Artificial intelligence

January 11, 2024

This brief details an examination into the effects of AI towards elections, voting and democracy while proposing the policies at hand to properly regulate the usage of AI without further harm to politics.

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