Verónica María Hoyer was born in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up between Caracas and Portland, Oregon. Verónica is an Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS)/MPP dual degree student at the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the McCourt School of Public Policy. She is currently a graduate fellow at Georgetown's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy studying inter-american diplomacy towards the political crisis in Venezuela. Verónica is a United States Air Force veteran, having served two combat deployments in Afghanistan, and holds seven years of experience in national security in both civilian and military settings focusing on the Korean Peninsula and Latin America. She graduated with honors from the George Washington University with a double major in International Affairs and Economics.

"Having studied international affairs in undergraduate school, I choose MSFS because I knew it was the best school in which to pursue my dreams."