Devo Probol (’20SPS)

Devo Probol is a Presidential Ph.D. Fellow, Fontaine Fellow, and Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds fellowship positions at the Center on Digital Culture and Society, where she leads the Digital Activism & Data Justice research group, the Center for Media at Risk, where she is a Steering Committee Member, and is an inaugural Perry World House Graduate Fellow for the 2025–2026 academic year.

In addition to her doctoral studies, she holds an appointment as an Associate at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Prior to graduate study, she worked in the U.S. national security sector, both at the Department of State and the Department of Defense, with subject-matter expertise spanning 36 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. At the end of her tenure in the foreign service, she served as an advisor and Communication Strategist for the Deputy Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, overhauling joint communication strategy and processes across the command’s area of responsibility.

Devo earned M.A. degrees in Communication and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania (2024, 2025), an M.S. in Strategic Communication from Columbia University (2020), and a B.A. in History and Religious Studies from Arizona State University (2016), where she was awarded the Dean’s Medal Award, the highest honor conferred by the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies.