Cormac T. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Cormac is currently on his second gap year before attending Yale in the fall of 2021. He graduated from high school in New York in 2019 and was a field organizer on the Biden campaign for 13 months, managing hundreds of volunteers and contacting tens of thousands of voters throughout the country. Fascinated by geography, foreign affairs, and politics, he has studied for a semester in D.C. at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership, competed in the U.S. Geography Olympiad, led his high school's Model UN team, worked on a State Senate campaign in New York, and taught middle schoolers Model UN skills. More recently, he has been involved in the Yale Politic and the Yale Review of International Studies, attended Global Citizen Year Academy, worked as a marketing specialist for an organization that increases access to gap years, and interned at a Colombian fintech company while living in Colombia for three months. He observed Ramadan with a family in Jordan to learn Arabic and more about Jordanian culture, and is currently on a wilderness expedition in Alaska with the National Outdoor Leadership School. He loves listening to '70s music and podcasts in Spanish, exploring new places on foot, and having conversations with people from different backgrounds. He has had such positive experiences teaching students in lots of different settings and wants to share the inspiration he was lucky enough to have from so many people in his life.