Caroline Capone is a Pathways Fellow at the Center for Strategic Deterrence and Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, where her work focuses on strategic deterrence, arms control, emerging threats, cyber operations, and Indo-Pacific security. She is pursuing an M.A. in Security Studies at Georgetown University, specializing in national security, East Asia, cyber policy, and open-source research.
Previously, she served as an Outreach Intern at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, supporting public engagement on U.S. foreign policy. 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 NASA and NOAA, translating complex scientific and technical information for public audiences.