Ulla is a 2024 graduate from Syracuse University’s Renée Crown Honors College with a double major in international relations and French and Francophone studies, with concentrations in international law and organizations and the SWANA region. Additionally, Ulla double minored in Arabic and Political Science. Her honors research thesis explored the question of how racial ideologies that shaped policies of European colonialism in North Africa and the notion of Arabization post-colonialism have worked together, as well as separately, to construct the politicization of race and ethnicity using the cases of Sudan and Tunisia.

Ulla has worked in an international, English-, French-, and Arabic-speaking environment through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She spent her time there in the legal and humanitarian departments and wrote a final report on the subject of the humanitarian situation in Sudan for the Secretary-General. Additionally, Ulla has worked in the Pompidou Group at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, where she focused on implementing a gender approach in drug policies and supporting the Pompidou Group's Mediterranean network for co-operation on drug use and addiction. After completing her undergraduate degree, Ulla worked under Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the U.S. Department of State.

Ulla’s passions intersect through the study of languages, the Arab world, and women and gender. Through her studies, she seeks to challenge the narrative that frames the MENA region as a backward Arab world in contrast to a progressive and established West.