Mithun Mansinghani

Mithun Mansinghani, a policy studies and political science major from McAllen, Texas, graduated from Rice University in 2008. He was a research intern at the American Enterprise Institute in summer 2007, assisting Douglas Besharov in research on the Special Supplementary Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Mansinghani presented the results of his research, “WIC Eligibility and Participation Rates,” at the Baker Institute in September 2007. He was a research intern for the institute’s Transnational China Project in summer 2006, and was recommended for the program by Paul Brace of the Department of Political Science at Rice. Mansinghani began studies at Harvard Law School in 2008, and in summer 2009 was awarded a Blackstone Legal Fellowship from the Alliance Defense Fund to assist Patrick Trueman in legal research on child exploitation in Washington, D.C. In 2009, he joined the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review.