Anne Gulbrandsen graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2011 with a B.A. in European Studies with German as a Foreign Language, having spent one year as an exchange student in Berlin at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. From September 2011 through June 2012 she did volunteer work in Matera, Italy through the European Voluntary Service programme, where she learned Italian and a bit about the local culture, history, geology and politics. In August 2012 she enrolled in the master’s programme MSc Globalization: Global Politics and Culture at the NTNU. One month later, she joined Amnesty International as a campaigner/ fundraiser, focusing on LGBT issues. While working for HRNK, she hopes to deepen her understanding of North Korean human rights issues, and to couple this with globalization theory. The north/south divide in Korea intrigues her due to its relative similarity to the history of the Berlin Wall. Her main interests include languages, biology/ecology, and international relations.