Lena Siemers

Lena is a multilingual international student from Germany, with extensive international experience gained while living in Germany, France, and the United States. She has been living in the United States since 2016 and has pursued her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of South Alabama, and her M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Security and Diplomacy studies at the University of West Florida. Following her graduation in 2023, Lena joined the TSOS Thought and Leadership Team as a volunteer in the Spring of 2024, while simultaneously working as a refugee caseworker in refugee resettlement. Her first-hand experience of the Syrian Migrant and Refugee Crisis in 2015 in Germany has driven her passion to work in the immigration field. Lena will be starting her PhD in Global Studies at UMASS Lowell in the Fall of 2024.