Jared is originally from Springfield, Ohio, but spent much of his childhood living on a bison farm in central Missouri. While an undergraduate studying international relations and Japanese language at Princeton, he traveled internationally for the first time to Cambodia, where he helped design and lead a summer camp focusing on STEM and English education for promising students from all across the country. He returned to Asia in 2018 as Princeton in Asia’s Osawa Fellow and spent that summer refining his understanding of Japanese language and culture while teaching English to employees at several companies in Tokyo. As a SINSI scholar, Jared hopes to further expand his understanding of the world to prepare for a career in diplomacy and international development. His first fellowship rotation was at the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) office in the Department of Defense’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He then moved to the State Department’s Office of Japanese Affairs and supported various Department efforts during the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden-Harris Administration. In September 2021, Jared began his third rotation at USAID, Office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, focusing on regional development. During the summer of 2022, he finished his rotation at the U.S. Embassy Jakarta. Because of his love of academia, Jared has spent much of his free time competing on the Princeton University Quiz Bowl team, but also enjoys unwinding by exploring the outdoors or playing video and board games with friends.