Kyle Tucker
Kyle (Sellersburg, IN) graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures, alongside minors in Russian & East European Studies, World Political Systems, and Intelligence Studies. During his time at IU, he spent a year in Kazakhstan pursuing intensive Russian language and regional studies through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Russian Flagship Program. His academic and professional work centers on nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, and international technology and security issues. He received a David L. Boren Scholarship to support his language studies and later served as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, DC. Kyle has also been an Undergraduate Nonproliferation Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, a translation intern at the Nuclear Technology Safety Center in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and a participant in several international academic seminars spanning Japan to Austria. An Eagle Scout, Kyle is interested in careers related to public policy. As a Marshall Scholar, he pursued a Master of Arts in National Security Studies at King’s College London and a Master of Letters in Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews.