Patrick McCabe

Originally from Virginia, Patrick spent time growing up in the Dominican Republic and Panama. While studying political science and Arabic at the University of Notre Dame, he interned with American Near East Refugee Aid in Jerusalem and the West Bank and with the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Inclusive Peace Processes Team in Washington, D.C. Following graduation, Patrick worked with the International Organization for Migration in northern Morocco, before joining the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and working on the Levant regional team in Washington and the Disaster Assistance Response Team in Kyiv, Ukraine. Following his first year at SPIA, Patrick interned with Mercy Corps in Colombia, leading a mixed methods research project for the VenEsperanza humanitarian consortium on the results of livelihood programs supporting Venezuelan migrants and refugees. At Princeton SPIA, he hopes to deepen his expertise on policymaking across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus and further develop policymaking skills for international emergencies and diplomacy. Patrick enjoys hiking, trying new recipes, and learning languages.