Avi Rao

Avi Rao is a first-year in Pauli Murray College hailing from New York City and intending to major in Global Affairs with a prospective double major in Economics. Growing up half-Peruvian, had always been exposed to Hispanic and Latin American culture and has since formalized his Spanish education, taking classes from a young age. From there, he began to combine his interest in Latin America with his love of Global Affairs and History, focusing on how Latin America’s history, colonial and post-colonial, has influenced its contemporary position. Avi has spent considerable time examining the effects of US intervention in Latin America during the Cold War, specifically in Chile, Argentina, and Peru and loves connecting that history to current Latin America-US relations. Currently, Avi is continuing his exploration of Latin American history and culture, this time in relation to its contemporary strategic relationship with the US. Outside of class, Avi is the Web Editor and Events Manager for the Alexander Hamilton Society, competes on Yale’s Ethics Bowl team, and writes for the Yale Globalist.

Areas of research and geographical interest: 

Latin America as a Cold War battleground, contemporary Latin American economics. Geographical: Peru, Chile, Argentina