Monica Eppinger 
MONICA EPPINGER is a joint degree candidate, Ph.D./J.D., in the Department of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley and Yale Law School. A U.S. diplomat from 1992-2001, she developed regional expertise in the former Soviet Union through postings to U.S. Embassy in Kiev and to the Secretary of State’s Office for the New Independent States. In Kiev, she covered the Ukrainian Parliament and the post-Soviet transition process, and drafted the State Department’s 1996 Country Human Rights Report on Ukraine. In Washington, as member of an interagency working group for strategic energy diplomacy, Monica Eppinger authored policy for the Secretaries of State, Defense, Energy, and Commerce and represented the U.S. in negotiations at the Ministerial level in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
