Perry Lum is the Senior Program Manager for the America in the World Consortium. Perry recently earned a Master of Global Policy Studies degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin, where she was a Brumley Fellow. Immediately before graduate school, Perry lived in Amman, Jordan, studying Arabic and teaching English. She also worked in Washington, DC, at the Center for a New American Security as a development intern and research contractor and as an Iraq program associate at the International Republican Institute. Perry graduated from Colorado College with a B.A. in Political Science.