Lorraine Keeler

Lorraine came to the Woodrow Wilson School after serving for over 2 years at the State Department in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to that she worked in environmental management at a Brazilian mining company, CBMM. She completed her 2019 summer internship at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as a majority staff intern and Rosenthal Fellow. Her interests include Brazil, the Western Hemisphere, environmental management, climate change, and national-level politics. She grew up between Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Pittsburgh and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, she studied environmental studies and Portuguese, and studied abroad in Brazil as a Boren Scholar.