Tyler McBrien

Tyler majored in International Relations and History at Claremont McKenna College. Tyler studied abroad in Marseille, France and Fez, Morocco, where he studied French and North African culture and history. Throughout his time at CMC, Tyler worked at the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights, where he wrote a paper on the 2011 Somali famine for the International Network of Genocide Scholars. He set off for northern Tanzania in the summer after his sophomore year, where he interviewed teachers and students about a new public debate program for the Asante Africa Foundation. In his junior year, Tyler wrote a research paper for the CIA’s Historical Collections Division on the role of intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict, which was presented at a symposium at the Nixon Presidential Library. In the following summer, he interned at the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before his PiAf fellowship, Tyler worked at the Education Advisory Board, where he conducted research on higher education. Tyler is a lover of all things outdoors and cannot wait to enjoy all of the natural beauty South Africa has to offer, and hopefully pick up some isiXhosa along the way.