Anastazija Ristovska

Anastazija Ristovska is a rising sophomore at Rice University studying bioengineering and political science. These diverse fields relate to, respectively, Anastazija’s interests in the bionanotechnology industry and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East; the pursuit of one of these interests constitutes her postgraduate plans. Anastazija is a native of Macedonia, where she competed in multiple international engineering and chemistry olympiads during her high school career at Yahya Kemal College. Anastazija has a personal interest in women’s and minority rights on a global scale, as well as in the world’s monotheistic religions. In her spare time, she enjoys reading classical literature, learning music history and listening to classical (especially baroque) music. Her high school experiences have taken her to a great variety of locations, including multiple visits to Turkey (Adana, Ankara, Istanbul, etc.) and Greece, as well as Belarus, Northern Norway, Bulgaria, Poland and Albania.