Anthony Costanzo is a first-year MPP student at the Yale Jackson School focusing on emerging technologies and U.S.-China competition. Prior to Yale, Anthony's career spanned military service, academia, and nonprofit entrepreneurship.

In the Marine Corps, Anthony protected diplomats in austere and expeditionary environments, most notably in China and Haiti, and received a military award for actions amid three noncombatant evacuation operations in Port-au-Prince. Building on his overseas experience, he pursued a degree in political science, East Asian studies, and Mandarin Chinese at Columbia University and graduated magna cum laude. As a recipient of the Critical Language Scholarship, he studied at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. 

To synthesize and apply his expertise, Anthony conducted research at the Institute for Global Politics and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, contributing to studies on naval warfare and policy memos on machine learning applications in intelligence analysis and crisis decision-making. At the Cambridge Security Initiative, he earned first-class marks for his research on Chinese Military-Civil Fusion. 

Recognizing the shortcomings of military education, Anthony co-founded and leads the Samuel B. Griffith Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing microgrants, language tutoring, and educational resources to junior warfighters studying the People's Liberation Army.

At Yale and beyond, Anthony is keen to refine his expertise and engage with emerging opportunities in the private sector, particularly at the intersection of technology, innovation, and governance.