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Aubrey Menard

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Aubrey Menard lived in Mongolia as a Luce Scholar from 2015 to 2016. She’s worked on democracy and governance issues in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Central America, and the United States.

Aubrey is an expert on political transitions, elections, and democracy. She’s been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Politico, the South China Morning Post, and more.

Aubrey earned an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She is a Critical Language Scholar (Russian) and a Truman National Security Project Fellow. Young Mongols is her first book.

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	Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild Wild East 4.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Орчин үеийн Монголоос илгээв: Хос хэлээрх цоморлог by Narantsogt Baatarkhuu (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Aubrey Menard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Buyanbat Khishignyam (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What to Do When You're Having Two: The Twins Survival Guide from Pregnancy Through the First Year

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Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

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“Where are you supposed to go when you no longer feel welcome in the places you turned to because you didn't feel welcome anywhere else?”
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“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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“No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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