Honoré Cole
Honoré is a Chinese American adoptee who was raised in a Jewish household in Seattle, Washington. She is interested in the East Asia-Pacific region and shaping U.S. foreign policy towards China. Her concentration is Global Politics & Security (GPS).
Honoré developed a deep interest in international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and public service after she spent ten months in Beijing taking intensive Chinese language classes on a State Department scholarship. Following her year abroad, she attended Brandeis University, where she double majored in International & Global Studies and East Asian Studies. In college, she spent a semester in The Hague, where she took classes on international law and justice at Leiden University and completed a practicum at the Chinese Initiative on International Law. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Honoré moved to Shanghai where she worked as an education consultant for a year and a half. Since then, she has interned in the Asia & Geopolitics program at the German Marshall Fund and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the Office of Senator Robert Menendez. Currently, she serves as a research assistant to Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist Isaac Stone Fish. Ultimately, Honoré hopes to pursue a career in diplomacy, either as an advisor to policymakers in the executive or legislative branches of the U.S. government or as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State. She is especially interested in U.S. foreign policy towards China.
"I chose MSFS because I knew it would provide me with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to formulate and implement policy measures in response to international issues and global security threats."