Noosha Uddin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. Her dissertation examines how the political action at the domestic, transnational, and international levels lead to policy reform of Qatar's guest worker-sponsorship system (kafala, in Arabic) leading to improved living and working conditions of Bangladeshi migrant workers. Noosha also has research experience in energy and environmental security and in political and economic implications to national clean energy transitions. In addition to her affiliation with the Blum Center, Noosha is a graduate assistant of the Energy Governance and Political Economy (EGAPE) Lab at UCSB as part of the institution’s 2035 Initiative, a graduate associate at the Broom Center for Demography, and a graduate student fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies (CMES).