Allen David Simon is currently an editor at the A Different View blog, a publishing associate at The ArmChair Journal. He is also a contributor to student research committees under the International Association of Political Science Students (Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montréal). Allen is pursuing a master's in Political Science at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata (University of Calcutta), with aspirations to be a research scholar with deep interests in South Asian studies. He graduated as valedictorian with a bachelor’s in Political Science from St. Xavier’s in 2024. He is also a public speaker and is often described as a “social butterfly” by his peers.