Caroline Capone is a Research Trainee at the Center for Strategic Deterrence and Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), National Defense University. Prior to joining CSWMD, she served as an Outreach Intern at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) where she supported initiatives to advance democracy and diplomacy at the grassroots level. Caroline is currently pursuing her Master’s in Security Studies at Georgetown University with a focus on International Security. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she double majored in Communications and International Relations and earned a minor in Environmental Sciences. While at UIUC, she interned at both NASA and NOAA, streamlining complex space and ocean science into content for the public to understand.