Diarra Molock is a 2025 Spring Intern with the Global Taiwan Institute. She recently completed a year-long pathways fellowship with the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of International Affairs in the Global Strategies and Negotiation Division. In the Spring of 2024, Diarra graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a Master’s in Asian Studies where she focused on US foreign policy, US-China relations, and cross-strait relations. During her graduate studies Diarra also spent a year as a Boren Fellow to study advanced Mandarin in Tainan, and Taipei city in Taiwan.
Before embarking on her graduate studies, Diarra spent significant time living in Busan, South Korea (2018-2020), and Changsha, China (2016-2018) where she taught English in primary and secondary education. In the Fall of 2014, Diarra also spent time living in Chengdu, China as an undergraduate student where she studied at the Southwest University for Minorities. In 2016, Diarra graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland with a focus on US History, and East Asian History.
Diarra’s research interests are focused on tech policy, including international telecommunications policy and the national security risk of telecommunications equipment, as well as the proliferation of misinformation/disinformation online. Diarra has always had a passion for Asia, and is excited to join the Global Taiwan Institute as an intern to do research and policy work on one of her most passionate areas of interest, Taiwan.