Michaela Bauman

 Michaela Bauman graduated from Yale College in 2024 with a B.A. in Global Affairs and advanced language certificates in Portuguese and Spanish. Her undergraduate coursework focused on U.S. interventions, Chinese influence, and political unrest in Latin America. At Yale, she taught free ESL classes to Brazilian immigrants through the nonprofit Bridges ESL and served on their board. She also studied abroad in Rio de Janeiro and was a Peace and Dialogue Leadership Initiative Fellow, where she traveled to Israel and Palestine with West Point cadets to study civil-military relations and conflict resolution. For her senior capstone project, she worked on behalf of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia, created out of the Dayton Accords, to determine the necessary conditions for the Brcko District in Bosnia, which is currently under international supervision, to become a self-governing entity. During the summer, she served as a policy intern in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she was responsible for all issues related to China and the Indo-Pacific. Michaela is originally from Washington, DC, and hopes to pursue a career in national security and diplomacy.