Speaking Engagements

UN Women Panelist
In March 2016, Sienna had her first major public speaking engagement at the Delegates' Dining Room at the UN's NYC HQ. As the representative for the 2015 cohort of Global Community Champions, she was a co-panelist with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women; The Honorable Carolyn Bennett MP; and Sarah Personette, VP of Facebook's Global Business Marketing.
Photo credit: UN Women/Ryan Brown
International Delegate - 2016, 2017, & 2018 Vatican Youth Symposiums
Jointly hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and SDSN Youth, these annual conferences brought together fifty leaders in a variety of areas of sustainable development to form collaborative partnerships. Sienna was asked to present before the VYS panel (made up of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Monsignor Sánchez Sorondo, and Dr. Betsee Parker) all three years. At the 2017 VYS, Sienna lead efforts to establish 2030 Today, while seeking funding from the UN and PAS supporters. 
Photo Credits: PAS/Gabriella Marino
Keynote Speaker & Panelist - 2016, 2017, & 2018 AYUDH Americas Youth Parliaments
AYUDH, an international youth organization with chapters around the world, brought together hundreds of representatives from their Americas chapters to this week-long event in Chicago, IL. At the Youth Parliaments, Sienna delivered keynote addresses on the SDGs and the importance of youth to global action. She also led a political economy exercise while participants planned sustainability initiatives and goals for the year ahead, and led panels on financing the SDGs. 
Photo Credits: Mata Amritanandamayi/AYUDH Americas
Georgia Tech University's Greater Atlanta UN SDGs Young Leaders Panel
Sienna was the UN RCE of Greater Atlanta's Youth Network Representative at this March 2018 event. Sienna was a co-panelist with Trisha Shetty, founder of SheSays; and Rainier Mallol, President of AIME. Both Trisha and Rainier are the UN's official Young Leaders for the SDGs. 
World Youth Day 2019 Workshop
Sienna co-led SDSN Youth's renewable energy and sustainable innovation workshops at World Youth Day 2019 in Panama City, Panamá. The event was co-lead by Nicolás Palacio Serrano, SDSN Youth's Network Coordinator for the Andes. Nico and Sienna were tremendously assisted by Daniela Guevara, Selena Jimenez, David Carchipulla, Martin Velez, and Maria Jose De La Torre; SDG Coordinators and volunteers with SDSN Andes. The event brought together Catholics from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Panamá, and Germany. The event was hosted in both English and Spanish.
World Bank Group and IMF Annual Meetings 2023
Sienna spoke on a panel with Martin Mühleisen (former Chief of Staff to IMF Managing Director Lagarde) and Mark Sobel (former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Treasury) to honor the launch of Mühleisen's The Bretton Woods Institutions under Geopolitical Fragmentation report with the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center. Sienna also presented the preliminary research findings for her own policy report – Governance Reforms of the Bretton Woods Institutions – with her co-author, Joël Christoph. She and Joël also presented their preliminary findings to the IMF Youth Fellows and received their constructive comments, criticism, and feedback.
Related Articles and Videos
Reimagining Global Economic Governance Atlantic Council Event Video
2023 Presentation at the World Bank Group and IMF Annual Meetings
Atlantic Council Panel for Martin Mühleisen's Report Launch
International Youth Day 2020 Webinar - Conexõs Nas Américas: Organizações Jovens e Seus Impactos (in Spanish, Portuguese, and English)
2018 Vatican Youth Symposium Press Release
​2018 Vatican Youth Symposium Blog (written by Sienna)
Video of Sienna's 2018 VYS Address
​2017 Vatican Youth Symposium Gallery
2017 Vatican Youth Symposium Blog
​Video of Sienna's 2017 VYS Address
​2016 Vatican Youth Symposium Press Release & Blog
​Video of Sienna's 2016 VYS Address
​Live Stream from 2018 Workshop at AYUDH Americas Youth Parliament
​Video of Outcome Presentations from 2018 Workshop at AYUDH Americas Youth Parliament
​Greater Atlanta UN SDGs Young Leaders Blog (written by Sienna)
​World Youth Day 2019 Blog (written by Sienna)
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Teaching & Research Statement

Sienna's research interests are broadly at the intersection of international political economy (IPE) and comparative politics with a focus on both positive (aid) and negative (sanctions) economic statecraft. Her research specialization includes economic security, public opinion on foreign policy, global governance, sanctions, anti-human trafficking policy, and archival research. For anyone following the "IPE" vs "geoeconomics" branding debate, Sienna identifies with both disciplines but believes IPE is a more appropriate fit for economic security studies because geoeconomics (which is a smaller subset of IPE) otherwise misses important and necessary traditional IR/IPE scholarship. The title of her PhD thesis is Essays on Political Behavior and Economic Statecraft: Sanctions, Reconstruction Financing, and Humanitarian Aid. 
 
Sienna has had a myriad of teaching experiences in her three years at Bocconi University. She has served as a TA on eight courses at the BA/MA levels, led lab seminars on HEC Paris and Bocconi's dual degree "Data Analytics" course, served as a policy brief advisor to Master's students at CIVICA universities around Europe, and judged student policy reports for the futurEU initiative. As part of her teaching assistantships, Sienna has given guest lectures on the following topics in Bocconi's Master's level IR course: the domestic politics of sanctions and international monetary policy, the domestic politics of trade and foreign policy, and two lectures on the international politics of coercion in international financial organizations. Sienna has also guest lectured on using geospatial API for data collection in Bocconi's computational social science PhD course, and guest lectured on "International Sanctions, USAID and the Economic Policies of the Trump II Administration" at Universidad de la Sabana (Colombia, virtually). 

Outside of her academic lectures, Sienna has spoken about her research findings at the Vatican (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences) and at the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank (Marrakech, Morocco, 2023). Her first ever public policy speech was delivered at age seventeen in the United Nations headquarters in New York City during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Week.

Finally, Sienna has given back to the political science and public policy student community by publishing an e-book in 2022 called The Ultimate Career Guide for Political Science Students. The e-book is the culmination of years-worth of Sienna's personal career searching and networking experiences after working in international affairs and NGOs alongside her political science and economics studies on two continents. The career guide is meant to provide ambitious students of various social sciences with the confidence, information, and guidance they need to kick-start their career journey after a Bachelor's or Master's degree. 

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