Anthony Orlando

Anthony was born in raised in Chandler, Arizona. He graduated Magna cum Laude from The University of Arizona with a double-major Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies and Economics. His studies took him to China, where he lived in both giant metropolises and rural villages and grew fluent in Mandarin Chinese. One of his trips was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship. Anthony interned with the Congressional Office of Gabrielle Giffords and Arizona Students’ Association in Tucson and International Rescue Committee in Phoenix. He managed to pay the rent and have a lot of fun by working all across the U of A and serving as an Arizona Ambassador campus tour guide. After graduating he spent a year studying in Nanjing, China and completed an internship with the DoS’s Greening Diplomacy Initiative. Anthony then moved to Washington, DC to work with the DoS’s Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement and later USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. Anthony is excited to dive head on into learning about private sector development practices while working as a Junior Consultant with Imani Development in Malawi. He is especially interested to learn how responsible trade contributes to economic development.