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Author Archives: Maddeline Hicks
Maddie Hicks is a freshman at Yale University. She moved to London from Chicago nine years ago, and has just finished studying A Levels. Maddie was part of Orenda, the UK's national-winning Young Enterprise company in 2015, and has since acted as a student board member and mentor for the charity. Maddie was a Yale Young Global Scholar in 2015 in the Politics, Law, and Economics session. She is passionate about global affairs and international relations, but has not yet decided on a major.