Project: Geopolitics, the United Nations, and Human Rights

Adviser: Christopher Klein, Senior State Department Fellow, ISD; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs (2021-2022)

Steven Orientale is a second-year student in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program at Georgetown University. His research at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy focuses on geopolitics, human rights, and multilateral affairs. Most recently, Steven served as a Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense. He has additional experience working at the U.S. Department of State, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Save the Children (UN Office), and the U.S. House of Representatives. Steven graduated from Yale University with a BA in Global Affairs and Molecular Biology.