Policy and Advocacy Fellow at the State Policy Advocacy Clinic at the Brooks School, Hattie Seten focuses on advancing evidence-based social policy, rural equity, and human rights advocacy.

Seten has spent most of her career working on initiatives supporting child wellbeing and promoting immigrants’ equity and belonging. She most recently worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Switzerland, where she advocated for displacement-affected communities and coordinated international programs supporting refugee and host community children. Her experience also includes interning at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City where she worked on visa application issues, volunteering with rural community-based organizations in South Dakota, leading several successful state and local advocacy campaigns, and serving on the South Dakota World Affairs Council Board of Directors.

She also completed U.S. Department of State-sponsored Arabic fellowship programs in Morocco and Jordan, and Seten served as a Princeton University Public Policy and International Affairs Program Fellow.

Seten received her M.Phil. in Politics (Comparative Government) from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She received her B.A. in Political Science, Spanish, and Global Studies from South Dakota State University.