Mercedes Sapuppo

Mercedes Sapuppo is a master’s candidate at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and a nonresident fellow with the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. Prior to this position, she was an assistant director with the Eurasia Center. She has also previously worked as a research assistant with the Negotiation Task Force at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and was a research assistant with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, focusing on power dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean. She has held internships with the Atlantic Council, the Democracy and Culture Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Office of US Senator Elizabeth Warren, and the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment, and Cyber. Sapuppo graduated from Harvard University with honors and holds a BA in social studies with a focus on democracy, human rights, and security in Central and Eastern Europe, for which she wrote her thesis about the assault on the free press and independent journalist resistance in Russia and Belarus.