Jessica L. Martin
Research Associate & Communications Officer
Biography
Jessica Martin was a research associate and communications officer at the Institute for China-America Studies. She was also the manager of the ICAS Maritime Affairs Program, maintained the ICAS website, and was the chief editor of ICAS newsletters. Apart from individual research, Jessica contributed to special group projects such as the U.S.-China L.E.A.D. Project, the Arctic Maritime Security Tracker, and other related projects on security and international law in the maritime domain. As a research assistant intern at ICAS, she co-represented ICAS at the 5th Youth Forum in US-China Relations (June-July 2020) analyzing stability in the U.S.-China great power competition and co-wrote several report “It is What You Make of It: U.S.-China Military-to-Military Relations Beyond the 19th Shangri-La Dialogue,” among other writing and technical contributions of varying style and size.
Prior to ICAS, she was an Asia Program Intern at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C. and a Pathways intern with the Department of the Navy. A Florida native, she holds a MS in Security and Intelligence from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott and a BA in International Relations and Asian Studies from Rollins College. While studying at Rollins College, she gained experience abroad in China, Vietnam, and Spain, where the majority of her academics focused on developing topical and linguistic expertise in Chinese and Spanish.
