Marie Mach is a graduate student at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey pursuing a degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies with a specialization in Russian. Marie has experience researching violent extremism in Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, the United States, and Western Europe. She also researches Central Asian news for the publication Lossi 36. She joined CPOST in the summer of 2022 and will graduate in the spring of 2023.