Karime Barron

PhD Candidate in Political Science

Karime Barron is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations. She has a strong background in international political economy, diplomacy, labour migration, public policy, and development, with professional and research experience in America, Europe, and Asia. Karime has held research appointments at the University of Tokyo with Dr. Wada, where she contributed to a dataset project that analyzed protest dynamics using machine learning. In fieldwork experience, she conducted original in-depth interviews with Ukrainian migrants in Poland under the supervision of Dr. Tigau. Before entering her doctoral study, Karime served for five years in the Mexican federal government. At Northeastern, she is pursuing a Certificate in Digital Humanities at the NU Lab and has served as a Teaching Assistant in courses including International Political Economy with Dr. Rodine-Hardy, Globalization, International Conflict and Negotiation with Dr. Diamanti, and Modern Political Thought with Dr. Bormann.

Related Schools & Departments

Political Science

Related Research Centers

NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

Research Interest

Karime’s research interests examine how transformations in global and domestic political economies reconfigure labour markets, mobility regimes, and the distribution of opportunity. She is particularly interested in analyzing and understanding the ways institutions and economic change shape life trajectories, particularly for women and migrant communities. Her work combines mixed methods.

Keywords: International Political Economy; labour markets; economic transformation; migration and human mobility; gender and work; development; informality and globalization; public diplomacy; political psychology; institutions and inequality; mixed methods; network analysis.

Prior work

Prior to doctoral study, Karime built over five years of professional experience in the Mexican federal government across diplomacy and international negotiation. She served as Director of

Innovation and Economic Affairs at the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, where she acted as a key liaison between Mexico and the New England innovation ecosystem, facilitating institutional links with academic, technological, and entrepreneurial hubs to promote collaboration in science, technology, and economic development. At the Ministry of Economy, she represented Mexico in multilateral standardization negotiations at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva, Switzerland. At the Economic Intelligence Unit, she contributed on strategies linking foreign investment, competitiveness, and state development in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Karime is the Regional Manager for Girls for Girls, an NGO born out of the Harvard Kennedy School.

BS in International Relations, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City.

Biography

Born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México, Karime is a migrant and artist. She first migrated to Tabasco and later to Mexico City, where she developed a survival instinct in a competitive and resilient city of 24 million people. She has lived in Warsaw, Tokyo, Boston and Copenhagen, and has backpacked solo across 48 countries.

Karime is the middle child (the “black sheep”) and has beautiful memories of her childhood with her siblings, Karla and Carlos. She is a poet and has a published poetry book titled Poemas al dolor, that explores pain as an intrinsic part of human experience. She speaks Spanish, English, French fluently, and a little Polish, Chinese and Russian. Outside academia, she enjoys dancing, cooking, decorating, cycling, and writing poetry.

Publications

Mexican Mobility in Boston: Between Innovation, Students, and Qualified Mexicans Abroad. Voices of Mexico.

Skilled South–South Migration: The Case of Young Ukrainians in Poland. In Patrimonio, migración, género y territorio: Perspectivas multidisciplinarias. BUAP.

Lack of Opportunities: Labor Migration of Ukrainians to Poland. CISAN.

Conference Presentations

II International Seminar on Migration and Gender, Institute of Economic Research, UNAM, 2022.

“The Decentralization of Feminism,” Museum of Anthropology Carlos Pellicer Cámara, 2020.

Contact info:

Renaissance Park, 9th Floor
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02120
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.karimebarron.com

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He did community service as part of the Ujima Global Leaders Program through the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. He worked on the Timebank team, helping give back to local communities.
Charles split his time for his first co-op between the Center for Economic Democracy and the Boston Ujima Project, where he analyzed studies on community needs, including infrastructure and childcare.
He was one of the co-creators of the #BlackAtNU campaign and advocated for racial literacy courses and a restorative and transformative justice center on campus.
Charles made his own research project- a macroeconomic index to measure democratic participation in municipal economies, partnering with NU, the Columbus Foundation and the Center for Economic Democracy.
He worked at the Participatory Budgeting Project as a Program Associate, helping city systems and other organizations actively decide how to invest money across different spaces.
Charles graduated in 2022. ..

Casey Greenleaf

Casey took Global Markets and Local Cultures. After traveling, she better saw how the coursework mirrored real life, and knew her education was preparing her for the world.
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Casey completed her first co-op at the Museum of Fine Arts as a community arts program assistant. She gained valuable hands-on experience assisting in arts classes for local communities.
She joined the Sociology & Anthropology Student Association during her third year. It allowed her to get to know her fellow students and mirrored the small school experience she loved.
Casey studied abroad in Nepal for her capstone thesis. She lived alone for a month while she researched and wrote about the lived experience of climate change in the lower Himalayas.
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Sunita Pfitzner

Sunita took Revolution, Civil War, and Insurrection, taught by Professor Risa Kitagawa. The course invited students to question the motives behind acts of violence against governments.
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Sunita worked at the Institute for Economics and Peace in Sydney, Australia, where she analyzed data on the corruption of police forces in Mexico.
Sunita was a member of the International Relations Council and traveled abroad with the club to compete in Model Arab League, Model NATO, and Model UN conferences.
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Yasser was in the Foundation Year program at Northeastern. The program was a rigorous deep dive into core subject classes that helped Yasser bridge the gap between his high school and college experiences.
He took Issues in Cities and Suburbs with Professor Erin Graves in Fall 2018. As someone deeply invested in urban life, he found the course was an enlightened look at the problems endemic to cities.
Yasser joined the Boston Beer Company as a Program Operations and Event Assistant for his first co-op. He worked on inventory, public relations, brewery events, and workspace organization.
He implemented community gardens all over Boston on deserted plots of land during his time as the Northeastern Campus Director for the campus’ United Nations Millennium Fellowship.
Yasser maintained a farm in Dorchester for The Food Project. He harvested crops, distributed produce through donations and food markets, and worked on overall logistics.
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