Sarah Cheung is a first-year B.S./M.P.P. student with an interest in the intersection of environmental issues, human rights, and U.S.-China-Asia relations. She is currently pursuing a B.S. in environmental studies with certificates in data science, Chinese, and human rights under the Yale Law School. She has had the unique positionality of approaching global issues through an interdisciplinary lens – she has studied abroad in Taiwan on the Light Fellowship, worked as a data researcher and author on the 2024 Environmental Performance Index and, this past summer, was a research and policy intern for the Environmental Law Institute. She also spent this past year researching for the Asian Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network, where she analyzed Asian countries’ compliance strategies for the creation of the world’s first internationally binding plastic instrument. This past April, she attended the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee (INC-4) in Ottawa and was able to better understand the role of multilateral negotiations in fostering environmental action. She is excited to continue exploring how collective environmental action can be fostered in a way that does not reinforce imperialist power dynamics through her time at the Jackson School.