Ilinca Drondoe ’26

She is writing a thesis that examines the relationship between the climate and ecological crises and the war system through a feminist lens. Ilinca spent her junior year reading geography at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, focusing on resource extractivism and critical development geographies. Since summer 2024, she has been a Researcher at the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights, contributing to the Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and Planet and coordinating its lecture series. Ilinca has interned at the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, supporting the gender-climate portfolio, and she previously led the Girl Up New England Coalition. At Wellesley, she serves as the College Government Vice President and interns at the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy. Ilinca aspires to work with an international organization addressing the gendered impacts of climate-related insecurities before undertaking graduate study in geography, with a focus on feminist geopolitics.