Rian Knighton is the Program and Communications Coordinator, Internship Coordinator, and Chief Editor of ICAS Newsletters with expertise in website and social media management, focus group facilitation, quantiative research methods, and public speaking. Core areas of interest for her are land use rights, and modeling state owned stock markets, commercial and residential housing markets, and financial systems, as well as U.S.-China-Vietnam trilateral relations. She holds a Bachelors in Rhetoric and Media and a Minor in Economics from Lewis and Clark College, with additional courses in Calculus at Ocean County Community College in pursuance of an eventual PhD in Real Estate Economics.