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Nikki Lohr

Nikki Lohr

Program Coordinator, Technology Leaders Initiative, Aspen Global Leadership Network

Nikki Lohr is the Program Coordinator for the Technology Leaders Initiative. Prior to joining Aspen, Nikki taught English at Minin University in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia through a Fulbright grant. She received her M.A. in Russian from Middlebury’s Language School in Moscow. Her research focused on post-Soviet Russian art and cultural identity, as well as the Russian education system. From 2020-2023, Nikki was an 8th grade history and civics teacher in New York City at Success Academy: Harlem West. She holds a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown, where she studied AI and tech policy in international affairs.
Her writing has been published in the Observer, Untapped Cities, Podcast Review, and the Stanford US-Russia Forum Journal.