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Meet the Associates

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Rani Chor

Office of Marketing Communication and Public Affairs

Rani Chor is a journalist and policy researcher. She holds a degree in international relations from Stanford University, with minors in biology and human rights. Chor has been published in PBS SoCal, Sierra magazine and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. As a climate beat reporter at The Nation, her coverage of The Stanford Daily's free speech lawsuit against the Trump administration was recognized as 2025 Best of StudentNation. Chor has lived in China and Cambodia as both a Gilman scholar and a Tsinghua IUP scholar. After researching international tribunals in South Africa, she trained in diplomacy as a U.S. State Department Rangel scholar. She is an alumna of Bloomberg's business journalism training program in London and interviewed with the Council on Foreign Relations regarding her work to expand access to international affairs. Originally from California, she looks forward to studying Arabic, exploring Egypt from reef to ridge and writing human-centered stories.

 

Meredith Scheiner

Office of Marketing Communication and Public Affairs

Meredith Scheiner is a 2026 graduate of Bridgewater College in Virginia, where she studied professional writing, strategic communications, and philosophy and religious studies. A Flory Honors student at Bridgewater, she was awarded the Presidential Merit Scholarship, the Professional Writing Award, the Philosophy and Religion Award and the Watson Humanities Award. Scheiner was a member of Sigma Tau Delta, Philomathes and Omicron Delta Kappa. As president of the campus chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, Scheiner presented at the annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Through the English department, she received a grant to research literary lyceums in post-World War I African American communities. She served as a staff writer for the Bridgewater student newspaper, BC Voice, and was managing editor of the campus literary magazine, Philomathean. Above all else, Scheiner has a passion for stories and literature, and outside of work, she enjoys reading, writing and taking long walks. She hopes to explore as much of Cairo as possible during her tenure as presidential associate.