Rachel Owens

Rachel Owens

Rachel Owens

  • CDDRL Honors Student, 2025-26
  • Research Assistant, Fisher Family Summer Fellows Program, Summer 2024
  • CDDRL Undergraduate Communications Assistant, 2023-24

Biography

Rachel Owens is currently majoring in Data Science and Social Systems, with a focus on Democracy and Governance. She is interested in how we as people choose to set up our societies and governance systems, and how — for the social problems that inevitably arise — the utilization of an interdisciplinary approach can more effectively solve these issues. Outside of academics, rock climbing, mountaineering, and photographic endeavors consume much of her time. 

In The News

Members of the Fisher Family Honors Class of 2026 pose with faculty María Ignacia Curiel, Stephen Stedman, and Larry Diamond at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.
Blogs

Honors College 2025 Day 1: Resilience in the Face of Change

This is the first story in a series of blog posts written by the Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2026 detailing their experiences in Washington, D.C., for CDDRL's annual Honors College.
Honors College 2025 Day 1: Resilience in the Face of Change
CDDRL Fisher Family Honors Class of 2026
News

Introducing Our 2025-26 CDDRL Honors Students

We are thrilled to welcome twelve outstanding students, who together represent fourteen different majors and minors and hail from seven different states and four countries, to our Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Introducing Our 2025-26 CDDRL Honors Students
Michael C. Kimmage discussed his recent book, "Collisions," at a CDDRL research seminar on June 6, 2024.
News

The War in Ukraine: Origins and Implications

Michael C. Kimmage discussed his recently published book, "Collisions: The War in Ukraine and the Origins of the New Global Instability" (Oxford University Press, 2024), which argues that the war in Ukraine is not a singular conflict; it has three separate axes, making it a series of collisions.
The War in Ukraine: Origins and Implications