Mango is pursing her PhD in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. As a comparativist she aims to explore the implications of electoral violence on political accountability, the effects of electoral violence on the long-term welfare of historically marginalized communities and the effectiveness of institutional reforms intended to mitigate the occurrence of electoral violence. She is equally interested in examining the effects of the weaponization of sexual violence against women during political violence on the participation of women in politics as voters and as candidates. Her regional focus is on East Africa.
In 2017 she worked as the assistant editor to the ‘Asian Women’ journal, at the Research Institute of Asian Woman (RIAW), Sookmyung Women’s University. She has also interned with The Asia Foundation, on the Women Business Center and Incubation Project (WBC), a microfinance development project that works to foster women entrepreneurs with small and medium sized business in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mango has a Masters in Development Policy from the Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and Management, and a Bachelors in Political Science and International Relations from Sookmyung Women’s University in South Korea.
