Cormac Thorpe is a joint B.A./M.P.P. student at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. As an undergraduate, he also studies Near Eastern languages and civilizations. He is interested in the intersections between forced migration, peacebuilding, and climate change, especially in the MENA region. Through the M.P.P. program, he seeks to further connect political and legal theory to policy practice and hone proficiency in quantitative analysis tools used in development and migration work.

At Yale, Cormac has served as the president of the Peace and Dialogue Leadership Initiative, the co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Review of International Studies, and a researcher at Yale Law School’s Lowenstein Project. He is also a teaching assistant for introductory Arabic, teaches international relations to local high schoolers, and has volunteered with Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services.

Cormac has interned at the Global Centre for Climate Mobility, the Justice Center for Legal Aid in Jordan, and the Executive Office of the President. Prior to Yale, he spent two gap years working full-time as a field organizer on the 2020 Biden for President campaign.

Outside of academic and professional pursuits, Cormac remains involved in the Yale community as a first-year counselor, a first-year outdoor orientation trips leader, and a former president of Yale Outdoors. In his free time, you can find him backpacking, playing board games, and enjoying new music.