Sydney Leary is assistant director for research and programs at the Civitas Institute, where she manages operations for the Institute’s growing research programs. She joins Civitas from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she oversaw policy work on education, technology, housing, agriculture, science, and poverty issues as the program manager for domestic policy studies. Sydney started her career in Washington, D.C. crafting and facilitating academic programs for undergraduate and graduate level students at AEI and the Hudson Institute. She is an alumna of the Danish Institute of Study Abroad European Politics Cohort and has completed fellowships with the Fund for American Studies, Hudson Institute Political Studies, and the Fulbright Program’s English teaching assistant program in the Czech Republic. Sydney is a graduate of Villanova University, where she received a B.A. in politics, philosophy, and humanities.