Sam Dearden joins ISS from the US Agency of International Development (USAID) in Washington DC, where he worked programming emergency food aid to South Sudan, Sudan, and Chad. While at USAID, he also was the personal assistant to the Director of Policy at the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. He received his MPhil in Modern British History from Cambridge, where he studied pirate radio, Americanization, and the BBC. He received a BA in History from Brigham Young University in 2015, during which he spent two years doing volunteer work in Chile.