Margaret (Maggie) Baughman is a recent graduate of Princeton University, where she researched the institutionalization of influence operations in China’s diplomatic and defense engagements, the evolution of Chinese information warfare tactics, and PLA military diplomacy activities. She worked as a research assistant at Princeton’s Center on Contemporary China, focusing on Chinese censorship. She has interned at the U.S. National Defense University’s Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and the Project 2049 Institute. In 2018, she studied Chinese for two months at Beijing Normal University. She has recently presented research at an RSIS conference on “Assessing the PLA’s Navy Reform Progress” in Singapore. Baughman was named as Princeton’s “Dean’s Scholar in the Nation’s Service” in 2020, and a Rhodes finalist for District 5. Her essay on Chinese misinformation surrounding Taiwan’s 2020 elections won New America’s “New Models of Policy Change” award. She is the recipient of the Ullman Prize for the best senior thesis in U.S. Foreign Policy for her piece “Selling China’s Story Well: The Chinese Government’s Transition to Privatized Propaganda on Western Social Media.” Baughman graduated Summa Cum Laude in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, with certificates in Chinese Language and Culture, Applications of Computing, and Statistics and Machine Learning, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.