Biography

Grace is a human rights researcher, genocide scholar, and political scientist from Connecticut, United States. Grace studied between 2019 and 2025 at the University of Connecticut, where she earned Bachelors degrees in human rights, with a minor in women's gender and sexuality studies, and political science; and a Master's degree in human rights. Her studies focused on ongoing genocides, crimes against women and girls, survivor-based resistance to international crises, international criminal law, and archival research/preservation of memory through artifacts and oral history. In 2024 she taught English and writing to first-year students at the University of Connecticut. She has worked with organizations Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) and The Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition (CIRC), assisting social services and resettling refugee and asylee families from Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and Russia. Grace served as an early writing consultant for the first draft edition of Predrag Dojcinovic's 2025 publication for the Oxford Handbook of Hate Speech's article "Hate Speech and Genocide: Between Theory and Practice" (http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4892834) Grace is currently working on dissertation research relating femicide (or, feminicide) to genocide, proposing that conditions in international legal theory be updated to include the specific crime of the targeted killing of women and girls as appropriate evidence for proving genocidal conditions, particularly at a legal level in international criminal courtrooms.