Erin Parsons is a Fellow with NAADSN focusing on strategic narratives, telecommunications, and security in the Arctic. 

She has performed research and policy analysis on governance, regulation, and counter-intelligence with the Barcelona Center for International Studies (IBEI), the United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Hudson Institute Center for Political-Military Analysis. She has lived and worked in the United States, China, Spain, Germany, and Greenland – where she was a Fulbright Grantee in Nuuk. 

She has a Research MA in International Studies from Pompeu Fabra University and a BA in Chinese and International Relations from the University of Oregon Clark Honors College.

Policy Primer: Chinese Arctic Discourse, 2018 to Present, Erin Parsons, June 2021