Mahasti Yuanita is an MPA student at Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research interests focus on economic governance, emerging technologies, inequality, and conflict vulnerability in domestic, transnational, and global policy issues. Before coming to Cornell, she worked on macroeconomic and fiscal policy in Indonesia, with experience in policy analysis, cross-ministerial coordination, and international economic cooperation. Her work explores how economic shocks, technological change, and financial governance shape state capacity, social cohesion, and equitable policy responses.