Ginger Matchett graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from American University's School of International Service, concentrating in Global Security, Conflict, Peace, and Global and Comparative Governance. She had a primary regional focus of European and Eurasian affairs, and a secondary in Sub-Saharan African issues. Ginger is interested in transatlantic relations, security and defense, foresight, foreign policy, diplomacy, human rights, international development, and gender studies.Ginger has specialized in researching the Russia/Ukraine war, NATO operations, Black Sea security, Nordic-Baltic issues, US security assistance, and the EU's security, defense, counter terrorism, and insurgency policies. Alongside these issues, she has researched geoeconomics and Chinese FDI in Europe and Africa, great power competition, and the rise of armed groups and intrastate conflict. Through her university, she completed her capstone research on the nexus of climate change, mass atrocities, and conflict for the US State Department. She also conducted qualitative ethnographic research on the women, peace, and security agenda around the world, the discourse of menstrual health in Sub-Saharan Africa, and gender inequality within international development.Apart from research and writing, she has extensive project management, event planning, government relations, public affairs, communications, media, and marketing skills. Maintaining advanced German and intermediate French language skills, she has studied abroad in Belgium with American University's EU in Action Program and in Germany with the U.S. Department of State's CBYX scholarship program.Currently, Ginger is a project assistant for the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
