Sarah Pardede is an International Political Economy student, writer, social organizer, and researcher who grew up in Indonesia and now living in New York City. She is passionate about political and economic development in context of globalization, ethics, technology, tensions of cultural diffusion with cultural relativism, and national security. She enjoys listening to Depeche Mode whilst cooking Indonesian food, dark humor, Edward Said's writing, and watching milk go into coffee. Her research work are available at Fordham University Research Journal, Helvidius: Columbia Journal of Politics and Society, and the Inquiry.