Sydni Scott is from Farmington, Connecticut, and is a junior at Columbia College majoring in political science. Research interests include European geopolitics, Subsaharan African political development, as well as race and politics. Sydni is a research assistant at the Center on African American Politics and Society. In addition, she is a member of the Women’s Track and Field Team, she is on the Student Advisory Board of the Eric Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights, as well as a member of the Pre-Law Society and the student A Capella group Notes and Keys.