Fatana Temory is a graduate student at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is the research assistant for the CPD Research Fellow Project The Impact of Arts, Culture, and Media in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Implications for U.S. Policy for CPD Research Fellow Ambassador Cynthia Schneider.

Her research will be focusing on recent developments in media along with the impact of arts, music and culture in Afghanistan, with the goal of developing recommendations for U.S. public diplomacy policy towards the region.

Fatana is a first-generation Afghan American student receiving her Master’s in Public Diplomacy at USC. She received her BA in International Relations at University of California Irvine with two minors in Conflict Resolution and Political Science. Her focus is on the Middle East, specifically relations between the United States and Afghanistan. She has recently returned from working at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C