A proud native Texan, Caroline earned a Bachelor of Arts in government, history, and French at the University of Texas at Austin, spending semesters studying in Dakar, Paris, and Washington, D.C. After graduation, Caroline worked in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. She designed, monitored, and evaluated conflict prevention and conflict resolution programs. She also served as member of the bureau’s peace process and mediation support team, providing U.S. diplomats with analytic and technical support to bring conflict parties to the negotiating table, work through mediation processes, and sustainably implement peace agreements. Caroline spent more than a year in Iraq as part of the humanitarian response to the military offensives against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. She managed an emergency livelihoods project to provide income-generating opportunities to Iraqis living in internally displaced persons camps before transitioning to work with Nonviolent Peaceforce, an NGO that provides unarmed civilian protection to vulnerable individuals and fosters dialogue between conflict parties. She spent the summer between years of graduate school in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, followed by a month in Beirut enrolled in an Arabic course. Caroline is attending the Woodrow Wilson School as a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow and looks forward to a career as a Foreign Service Officer after graduation.