Jasmine Wyatt

Hailing from Akron, Ohio, Jasmine J. Wyatt is a Legislative Correspondent for the U.S. Senate Democratic Whip, Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), and Vice President of the Council of American Ambassadors Alumni Association.

Ms. Wyatt graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Government and South Asian Studies, and a Spanish Language Citation. To complement her studies at Harvard, Ms. Wyatt studied abroad at the School for International Training in Geneva, Switzerland, studying French, international relations, and multilateral diplomacy.

In the past, Ms. Wyatt served as a Congressional Page in the House of Representatives for former Representative Betty Sutton (D-OH), a Communications Intern in the Mayor’s Office of Akron, and as a volunteer in the National Children’s Hospital and National Cancer Institute of Peru.  She also worked as a Public Affairs Assistant at the State Department, writing and editing statements for Secretary Kerry, as well as working on strategies to communicate the importance of foreign policy to the American people. More recently, she served as a Council on Foreign Relations Franklin Williams Fellow, as well as co-founder and co-leader of “Sisters of Strength,” a women’s empowerment group.

An aspiring Foreign Service Officer, Ms. Wyatt hopes to use diplomacy as her platform to advocate for global human rights and pursue her foreign policy, and youth/women’s rights passions.  Ms. Wyatt is proficient in Spanish, learning Hindi and Urdu, and sometimes dabbles in French.  Most importantly, Ms. Wyatt loves wandering, red velvet cupcakes, used books, chai lattes, and her younger sister.