Krystal-Gayle O'Neill (She/Her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Governance and Human Security program in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance, at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s McCormack Graduate School. She is also an Adam Smith and Dan Lavoie Fellow at The Mercatus Center, George Mason University. She is also the President of the UMass Boston Graduate Student Assembly (GSA). She is from St. Catherine, Jamaica and holds a B.Ed. (Business and Computer Studies) from the University of Technology, Jamaica, an MBA and MS in College Student Affairs (Conflict Resolution concentration) from Nova Southeastern University (Davie, Fl), an M. Phil (Social Sciences) from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and an MA in Conflict Resolution (UMass Boston). Her research interests include: Gender and Sexuality, Post-colonization in Latin America and the Caribbean, Inter/Intragroup Dialogues and Restorative and Social Justice practices. She has taught classes around race, gender and sexuality, global gender politics, global politics and navigating cross cultural conflict at UMass Boston and Babson College.