Jessica Martin is a research associate and communications officer at the Institute for China-America Studies. She is also the manager of the ICAS Maritime Affairs Program, maintains the ICAS website, and is the chief editor of ICAS newsletters. Apart from individual research, Jessica contributes 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 the report “Not Friend, Not Foe: Reassessing U.S.-China Great Power Competition with the Hydrangea Framework,” among other writing and technical contributions of varying style and size. Her current research interests include monitoring U.S.-China global engagement and policy development in the space realm, global engagements in maritime security and military relations, and U.S.-China soft power engagement with other nations.
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 hold 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.
