Kendall Gardner graduated as an Altman Scholar from Tulane University in 2020 with degrees in international relations and legal studies in business.  At Tulane, she researched modern capitalism and French labor relations, and she authored a thesis on the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan after her Annenberg Fellowship with the Afghanistan Desk at the U.S. Department of State.  After graduation, Kendall worked for an immigration law firm in New Orleans, where she specialized in humanitarian and family cases.  As a Marshall Scholar, Kendall will study political theory at SOAS.