Amara Galileo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at the University of Delaware. Her fields are comparative politics and international relations with an emphasis on the politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, her research interests include democratization and autocratization dynamics, the role of South Africa and Nigeria as regional powers, and U.S.-Africa relations. Amara currently serves as research assistant for Afrobarometer, a pan-African survey research network, and previously she has been involved in numerous research projects pertaining to topics such as women in African parliaments, opinion change amongst the American electorate and populist regime changes around the world. She has been active in various local community groups such as the Delaware Africa Coalition, a nonprofit which aims to bring greater unity to people of African descent in the tri-state area through social, educational and political programming. She also volunteers for the Delaware African & Caribbean Affairs Commission which is affiliated with the state of Delaware.