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Ariana Marnicio

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Houston, United States

Ariana Marnicio

Ariana Marnicio
Research Analyst, Women’s Rights in the Middle East Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Houston, United States
amarnicio@rice.edu

Ariana Marnicio is the research analyst for the Women’s Rights in the Middle East Program at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston, Texas. Marnicio also serves as the assistant director of the Public Diplomacy and Global Policymaking in the 21st Century Program. She has lived and studied in Egypt, Jordan and Oman. While in Jordan she interned with the New America Foundation, conducting research on the role of women in the Arab world. Her senior thesis investigated the use of lingerie between Muslim married couples and sexual equality. Marnicio speaks Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian colloquial Arabic. She graduated magna cum laude in 2013 from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts from the department of Arabic and Islamic studies, and was awarded the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship in Ibri, Oman. Her current research examines the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs in the Levant, and more generally the access of women and minorities to sexual and reproductive health care in the Middle East.

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