Madison Romo is from Houston, Texas. In May 2022, she graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a minor in Russian. During college, Madison served as a legislative intern in the U.S. Senate Office of Edward Markey and an advocacy intern for the Pardee Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, which inspired her to pursue a public service career. In 2017, Madison was awarded a National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study Russian in Moscow, Russia, and she now has varying levels of proficiency in French, Russian, and Spanish. Madison has used these skills as a volunteer English instructor for the United Nations service project Better Life Vietnam, Wonder Heritage Tutoring for Ukrainian Refugees, and the State Department’s Virtual Student Federal Service Access Kursk project. In the past year, Madison completed a traineeship, focusing on EU External Policy, at the European Parliament Liaison Office and served as a Fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Madison is a U.S. State Department 2023 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow and will join the U.S. foreign service upon her graduation from Georgetown. She is currently a first-year MSFS student in the Global Politics and Security concentration.