• First ever African-American female First Captain of the Corps of Cadets

• Rhodes Scholar, studying Women’s Studies and Social Intervention

• Selected for TeenVogue’s “21 Under 21” award

• Commissioned as an Engineer Officer

Simone Askew

• President, Yale College Republicans

• Psychology major, Neuroscience focus

• Yale School of Medicine Researcher; ThinkSwiss Research Scholar at the University of Geneva Pediatric Hospital

Ben Zollinger

• 1st Regiment, Cadet Command Sergeant Major

• Interned at a hedge fund and served as President, West Point Investment Club

• Currently serving as an Infantry Officer

Jackson Luff

• Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University

• Currently serving as a Military Intelligence Officer

• International Relations major/Counterterrorism minor; Division I volleyball player

• Conducted research and briefed policy for the Secretary of Defense

Megan Bryn

• Former counterterrorism soldier in the Republic of Korea Army

• Senior roles in the Yale Political Union and Yale College Council

• Interned at UBS and PH & Company, a Korean hedge fund

Nathan Kwon

• Columnist, Yale Daily News

• Studied public health in Uganda and economic development at the EU

• Interned for Rep. Joaquin Castro

Liana Wang

• Former intern in the LA Mayor’s office, writer for The Politic

• Studied Arabic in Jordan and researched the development of Kurdistan

• Ethics, Politics, and Economics/Modern Middle East Studies major

Ella Fanger

• Studied grand strategy in Taiwan and China with West Point

• International Relations major

• Currently serving as an Artillery Officer

Christine Sidhu

• Chief of Staff, Student Conference on U.S. Affairs

• Systems Engineer major

• Member, Division I West Point Swimming and Diving team

Kathryn Seyer

• Two years in Japan as a service missionary

• Economics major, Cyber Security minor

• Worked at the Army Research Lab, studying cyber operations

Kevin Colton

• Founder, Students of the Diaspora, the organization for first-generation African undergraduates

• Captain, Yale Muay Thai Kickboxing Team

• Political Science and History major, with a focus on humanitarian crises

Mbella Beseka

• Co-chair of IvyQ, an intercollegiate conference for LGBTQ undergrads

• Studies issues of statelessness in Latin America as a Political Science and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major

• On the board of the Yale Women’s Center

Nicole Chavez

• Co-director, Elmseed Consulting Services, board member of the Urban Philanthropic Fund

• Economics & Mathematics/Global Affairs major

• Former member, Turkish National Debate Team

Ramiz Colak

• Former Speaker, Yale Political Union and Political Action Coordinator, Yale Women’s Center

• Worked for a variety of political activism groups

• Philosophy/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major

Rita Wang

• Founder of the Urban Philanthropic Fund, a 501c3 that bridges investment education with community engagement

• Chairman, The Politic and Executive Board Member, Yale Student Investment Group

• Interned at JP Morgan and Bridgewater Associates

Ryan Taggarse

• Completed Cadet Leadership Development Training in Africa

• Studying natural resource management as an Environmental Science major

• Planning on commissioning as an Aviation Officer

William Merrill

• Teach for America Fellow

• Political Science major/Education Studies Scholar, interested in the status of Latin American exiles

• Former Chairwoman of The Politic

Ana Barros

• Former President, Yale College Council, the Yale student government

• Pre-med, with a focus on public health and developmental economics

• Successfully negotiated with the University on critical issues like sexual assault and financial aid policy

Matt Guido

• President, Yale College Democrats

• Former Chairman, High School Democrats of America

• History major, Human Rights focus

Jordan Cozby

• Studies migration as a member of the law school’s Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights

• Studied Arabic in Jordan and Oman

• President, Yale Refugee Project

Rosa Shapiro-Thompson

• Studied French and Political Science at the Catholic University of Lille

• Training Officer for Cadet Basic Training and member of the Sprint Football Team

• Commissioned as an Infantry Officer and plans to transition to Military Intelligence in four years

Zachary Trainor

• Founded No Lost Generation, an organization that helps refugees gain education in the U.S.

• Global Affairs/Statistics & Data Science major

• Legislative Captain for Yale College Democrats

Alissa Wang

• Member, Yale Political Union Conservative Party and board member, William F. Buckley, Jr. Program

• Worked on a number of state and local campaigns in Connecticut

• Completed Yale’s Directed Studies program

Weaver Lilley

• Studied Arabic in Jordan and Morocco with the State Department

• Board member, Students of Salaam, an organization that teaches English to Arab refugees

• Studying Global Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies

Nick Wade

• West Point PDLI Student Director 

• Studying Developmental Economics

• Researched and worked in The Gambia and Costa Rica

Jack Rawlins

• Editor-in-Chief, The Politic

• YLS Liman Fellow at the Bronx Defenders

• Producer of documentary, 120 YEARS

Keerthana Annamaneni

• Founder of QuietBreeze, an anti-noise-pollution startup

• Writer for the Yale Globalist and member of the Yale Undergraduate Consulting Club

• Fluent in four languages

Manuel Schneider

• Member the Executive Board of Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice

• Global Health Scholar/Pre-med student

• Conducted global health research in Ecuador and Peru

Nafeesa Abuwala

• President, Yale Friends of Israel

• Works for a neuroimaging lab

• Computer Science/Mathematics major

Noah Amsel

• Ethics, Politics and Economics Major

• Executive Director, Yale International Relations Association and Inaugural Kerry Fellow

• Currently a member of the Environmental Group at Goldman Sachs

Riddhima Yadav

• Executive Officer of Cadets Against Sexual Harassment and Assault Program

• Delivered a TedTalk on the topic of “Contagious Cancer”

• Studied intersectional examinations of gender as an English major

Robert Moser

• Executive Board member, Yale Student Investment Group

• Mathematics and Philosophy major

• Employed now at McKinsey in San Francisco

Trey Leigh

• Co-founder of Students for Carbon Dividends

• Violist in the Yale Symphony Orchestra

• Studies urban innovation as an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major

George Gemalas

• Studied Arabic in Morocco and Jordan

• Researches phosphate metabolism in the Bergwitz Lab

• Pre-med student studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Shumayl Syed