Sarah Chen

Biography

Sarah Chen is a senior at Claremont McKenna College studying a Dual Major in International Relations and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She is studying the emerging discipline of strategic wargaming with a focus on technology and cyberspace. At CMC, she works as a student ambassador for the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, a fellow for the Humanizing AI Lab, and the President of the Claremont International Relations Society. She loves playing and designing wargames: building a future intelligence warfare simulation for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, designing her own choose-your-own-techno-dystopia narrative, and creating an exploding industrial plant exercise for a corporate sponsor. She has studied cyber escalation under the Harold Rood Fellowship, analyzed the technical and emotional appeal of conflict in videogames through the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, and is a member of the Georgetown Wargaming Society and the Women's Wargaming Network. Currently, Sarah is working on coding the Dyadic Cyber Incident and Dispute Database for the Army Cyber Command and writing her thesis on cyber wargaming methodology. In her free time, she loves finding new used bookstores, reading all the science fiction she can get her hands on, and playing indie videogames, and competitively climbing the Team Fight Tactics rankings.