Justin Tyvoll

Justin Tyvoll is a second-year MA student at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he focuses on international security and sub-Saharan Africa.  Most recently, his studies have taken him to Nigeria, where he spent the past summer researching Boko Haram, Islamic State – West Africa, and transitional justice in the Lake Chad Basin. Justin graduated from Cornell University in 2013 with a BA in History and Philosophy. While at Cornell, Justin spent a summer in northern Uganda, where he designed and conducted a participatory rural appraisal survey of a former IDP camp. He also interned with the Enough Project in Washington, D.C., researching conflicts and human rights issues in Africa, helping draft memos for Congress and the NGO community, and developing maps of conflict areas. After graduation, Justin returned to East Africa to serve as a Health Extension Volunteer in the Peace Corps in Tanzania, living and working with pastoralists on the semi-arid Maasai Steppe.  After returning from Tanzania, Justin worked as an analyst at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Asylum Division, helping asylum-seekers pursue political protection and legal residence in the United States.