Aleksandra Ristovic currently serves as the International Broadcasting intern for CPD's 2013 Research Initiative. She has also helped conduct research on a number of strategic topics for CPD and updates the CPD research database with relevant and new resources in the growing field of public diplomacy.

Aleks is a second year student in the Masters of Public Diplomacy Program at USC. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and Philosophy from American University in Washington, DC, where she was awarded the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Her coursework focused on cross-cultural communication with an emphasis on international education and Latin America. She has held internships with National Geographic, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC, the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States, and the US Embassy in Luanda, Angola.

Aleks' focus is on diasporas as important tools of public diplomacy and the domestic dimensions of PD. She is especially interested in the role of digital diplomacy, exchange diplomacy, and the process of socialization in creating narratives and cultivating relationships between states and other actors. Aleks is proficient in Serbian, Spanish, and Portuguese with a working knowledge of French.