Alia Saphier

Alia Saphier is a current high-school senior attending the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey. As editor-in-chief of her school’s foreign language magazine and second-prize winner of the R.A. Butler Politics Prize 2024, she hopes to continue studying politics, culture, and language in college, especially through the lens of Jewish culture. She is also a classically trained musician with a fascination for music outside of the classical repertoire, such as klezmer music.