Hometown: Newton, Massachusetts

Bio: Lee Schlenker is an MA Candidate in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Research Intern with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Democratizing Foreign Policy program. He graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College as an Independent Scholar in Latin American Urban Studies. Previously, Lee was the policy director at an advocacy organization working to improve U.S.-Cuba relations, a journalist and producer with an award-winning independent media outlet, and Cuba program co-director and Northeast regional director at an international human rights organization. Lee’s work has been published and/or cited in The Guardian, Responsible Statecraft, Jacobin, ESPN, NPR, The Nation, The Hill, Miami New Times, USA Today, La Jornada and The American Prospect, among others, and he has conducted research on Latin American political and economic issues at Boston University, Brandeis University, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Columbia University, and Corporación Escenarios.

Research Area – Substantive: U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America, Diplomacy, International Relations and Geopolitics, Regional Integration, Multilateralism, Food Security and Sustainable Development, South-South Cooperation, Root Causes of Migration

Research Area – Geographic: Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Caribbean Basin, Brazil