Hadeel Hamoud is a peace-builder, migrants’ rights advocate, and social justice activist. She is currently at Duke University completing her bachelor’s degrees in Political Science, with a concentration in Security, Peace, and Conflict, and International Comparative Studies, with a concentration on the Middle East. While at Duke, she began to critically engage in Middle Eastern studies scholarship ultimately becoming president of Juhood Magazine, Duke University’s premier undergraduate publication featuring scholarship on the Middle East. As President, she oversaw operations and the publication of Juhood including expansion of the organization to become the undergraduate hub for Middle Eastern studies scholarship. She also organized and coordinated all programming including an event focused on Environmental Activism and Peace-building in the Middle East featuring Nisreen Elsaim, chair of the UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, and EcoPeace directors Dalit Wolf and Nada Madjalani. Outside of Juhood Magazine, Hamoud interns with the Environmental Peacebuilding Association conducting research on monitoring and evaluation approaches and is a Global Engagement Program Fellow, a program aiming to train students on cross-cultural awareness and communication skills. Previously, she worked at the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School as an undergraduate assistant and at the Justice Center for Legal Aid in Amman, Jordan as a research assistant. In Spring 2021, Hamoud was awarded the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, a centerpiece program of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s initiatives aiming to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. Later, she was awarded the Duke University Bass Connections Student Research Award and Duke Human Rights Center Summer Research Award to conduct research examining challenges faced by humanitarian actors working to expand access to water, sanitation, and health (WASH) in Egypt and Sudan, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with her colleague, Hamoud is currently working to found Duke’s first Arab Student Organization to build a safe, inclusive space for Arab and non-Arab students centered around Arab culture and identity. In the future, she hopes to earn her doctorate degree in Middle Eastern studies and work as an Environmental Peacebuilding practitioner focusing on the environment-migration nexus and working on issues around climate migrant rights and governance.