At Jackson, you’ll find a community of fascinating peers with a wealth of remarkable life and work experiences.
M.A. Students

Pauline Acquah
Pauline Acquah graduated from Cornell University in 2018, where she …

Elen Aghekyan
Elen Aghekyan is an M.A. student at the Jackson Institute …

Caroline Agsten
Caroline Agsten is an M.A. candidate at the Jackson Institute. …

Caroline Alexander
Caroline Alexander graduated from McGill University in 2015 with First …

Jackson Bahn
Jack Bahn is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Carleton …

Rona Beresh
Rona Beresh is a joint MBA and MA in Global …

Amanda C. Blair
Amanda C. Blair graduated summa cum laude and First-Class Honors …

Courtney Bliler
Courtney Bliler is a first-year MA student at the Jackson …

Douglas Burt
Douglas Burt is a first-year master’s student at the Jackson …

Jill Capotosto
Jill Capotosto graduated from Elon University in North Carolina with …

Sidney Cech
Sidney Cech is a joint-degree candidate at the Jackson Institute …

Tiffany Chan
Tiffany Chan is currently a M.A. student at Yale Jackson …

Eunsun Cho
Eunsun Cho graduated from Georgetown University in 2017, with a Bachelor …

Brian Jae Won Chung
Brian Jae Won Chung was born in South Korea and raised …
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Abigail Cohen
Abigail (Abby) Cohen graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with …

Stephen Coles
Stephen Coles grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and graduated magna …

Liam Comer-Weaver
Liam Comer-Weaver graduated summa cum laude from the University of …

Annie Crabill
Annie Crabill is a first year M.A. student at Jackson …

Drew D'Alelio
Drew D’Alelio graduated from Northwestern University in 2016 with degrees …

Cole DeVoy
Cole DeVoy graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in …

Benjamin Ditchfield
Benjamin Ditchfield was as a Chancellor’s Scholar at the University …

Andrew Doris
Andrew Doris is a former Army logistics officer studying foreign …

Nicolás Esguerra
Nicolás (Nico) Esguerra is an M.A. candidate at the Yale …

Riya Garg
Riya Garg, a first-year M.A. student at the Jackson Institute, …

Joe Gayeski
Joe Gayeski is an M.A. student at the Yale Jackson …

Douglas Gledhill
Douglas Gledhill graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College in 2014. …

Will Godfrey
Will Godfrey graduated summa cum laude from Ursinus College in …

Liz Griesmer
Liz Griesmer is pursuing an M.A. at the Jackson Institute …

Taek Jin Han
Taek Jin Han is a Foreign Service Officer from the …

Marc Ibáñez Díaz
Marc Ibáñez Díaz is a La Caixa Fellow pursuing an …

Deanna Johnson
Deanna Johnson is a second-year master’s student at the Yale …

Caleb Johnson
Caleb Johnson graduated from the United States Military Academy in …

Sophie Kaldor
Sophie Kaldor graduated from Sydney University with a B.A. (languages) …

Kathleen Keefe
Kathleen Keefe is a joint degree MA-MBA candidate at the Jackson …

Dilan Ezgi Koç
Dilan Ezgi Koç graduated valedictorian from Bilkent University, Turkey, in …

Gal Komem
Gal Komem is an M.A. student at the Jackson Institute …

Anirudh Krishnan
Anirudh Krishnan is passionate about interdisciplinary work focused on identifying …

Lissa Kryska
Lissa Kryska graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016 …

Shiori Kusuda
Shiori Kusuda is a Foreign Service Officer for the government …

Joshua Lam
Joshua Lam was born in Melbourne, Australia and raised in …

Libby Lange
Elizabeth “Libby” Lange is a first-year MA student at the …

Jason Lapadula
Jason Lapadula grew up in Pelham, New York. He graduated cum …

Nicholas Lewis-Walls
Nick Lewis-Walls graduated from the United States Military Academy at …

Krista Mangiardi
At Yale, Krista Mangiardi studies U.S. foreign policy with a …

Emily McInerney
Emily McInerney is a joint-degree student with the Jackson Institute …

Nathanael McLaughlin
Nathanael (Nat) McLaughlin grew up playing soccer in Los Angeles and …

Kendra Nealon
Originally from Glastonbury, Connecticut, Kendra Nealon is an M.A./MBA joint-degree …

Piper O'Keefe
Piper O'Keefe, originally from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, graduated magna cum laude …

Eunjung Irene Oh
Eunjung Irene Oh, originally from Seoul, South Korea, graduated from …

Katie Perez
Katie Perez graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a …

Colin Peterson
Colin Peterson graduated from the University of North Carolina at …

Nellie Petlick
Nellie Petlick graduated from Saint Mary’s College in 2016 with …

Stephanie Posner
Stephanie Posner graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2015 with a …

Cristina Quijano
Cristina Quijano graduated summa cum laude from Universidad San Francisco …

Brianda Romero Castelán
Brianda Romero Castelán was born in Puebla, Mexico. At Yale, …

Maya Saint Germain
Maya Saint Germain graduated magna cum laude from Boston University …

Faraz Salahuddin
Faraz Salahuddin is an M.A. candidate at the Jackson Institute …

Juan Carlos Salamanca Vázquez
Juan Carlos Salamanca was born and raised in Mexico. At …

Cristobal Samardzich Rizo-Patron
Cristobal Samardzich is an economics and business journalist from Lima, …

Emily Schiller
Emily Schiller received her B.A. with honors from Johns Hopkins University …

Robin Schmid
Robin Schmid is pursuing a master’s degree at Yale University’s …

Emily Sigman
Emily Sigman is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow …

Fanta Traore
Fanta Traore is pursuing a joint Master of Arts and …

Broderick Turner
Broderick Turner graduated summa cum laude from Texas State University …

Jasper Vaughn
Jasper Vaughn is a first-year M.A. student at the Yale …

Resla Wesonga
Resla Wesonga graduated from Yale University in 2019 with a …

Zachary White
Zachary White graduated from Rutgers University in 2015 with a …

Patrick Wiedorn
Pat Wiedorn studies international development, focusing on official development aid …

Rasik Winfield
Rasik Winfield graduated summa cum laude from the College of …

Michael Wisner
Michael Wisner graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with …

Rachel Xu
Rachel Xu is a first-year M.A. student at the Yale …

Bruno Zuccolo
Bruno Zuccolo graduated from Brown University in 2016 with a …
M.A.S. Students

Nicole Broida
Nicole Broida graduated with a B.A. in 2010 from George …

Jack Brown
Jack Brown graduated from Cardiff University in 2011, with a …

Joey Gagnard
Joey Gagnard, a current M.A.S. student at Yale University’s Jackson …

Zachary McLain
Zachary McLain currently serves as a United States Army Foreign …

Shaun K. Tateishi
Shaun K. Tateishi is a Foreign Area Officer in the …