Alexa Dominique Pascual

Alexa Dominique Pascual is a women’s rights advocate, international security researcher and social media advocate. She specializes in European affairs, national security, gender policy and security policy. She is from New York, lived in Montreal for five years to work as a circus performer and dancer, and is now based in Washington DC. She is a youth delegate at The World Bank, where she represents the youth and the importance of the prevention of the false use of AI and misinformation in the media. She is the current SDG #5 (Gender Equality) Global Goals Ambassador for The United Nations Association of the United States of America, where she specializes in women's rights and represents US voices at the UN. She is passionate about advancing women’s empowerment, and diversity in US politics, education, and human rights worldwide, and has negotiated policy with her international youth counterparts on these issues. She is also a youth delegate and speaker for the NATO Youth Summit, UN High-Level Political Forum and the UN General Assembly, where she engages in discussions on the prevention of gender-based violence, the importance of female leadership, prevention of human trafficking in the media, the prevention of misinformation, and the prevention of the false use of AI and how it could be a national security threat.

She represented the Major Group for Children and Youth and DMUN Foundation in all High-level UN, like the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future, where she promoted the importance of youth empowerment and women’s rights and created policy recommendations for the Pact of the Future, alongside the Major Group for Children and Youth. She is also the current International Director for Youth and Gender Affairs for Global Network of Political Leaders. She was a youth delegate to the NATO 75th Anniversary where she was selected by NATO Public Diplomacy Division to represent the NATO Youth Summit and the Women’s Peace and Security Agenda. She also did a project with the National Security Council of the White House to interview the Special Assistant to the President and Director for Partnerships and Global Engagement of the NSC about what it is like to be in national security and to educate youth about a possible career in national security. She also worked with the Director of the US Department of State of Countering Violent Extremism for his non-profit to advise him about the importance of youth involvement in foreign policy.

At DMUN Foundation, she serves as their gender policy advisor and organizes Model UN summits, and that is where she and the team get their input on what affects the youth for them to bring to high-level summits, at the United Nations. She is also a current graduate student at American University majoring in International Affairs: Global Governance, Politics and Security.