Madisyn GoodBallet is a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Bureau of International Organizations at the U.S. Department of State. Her background is in human security, international development, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian politics.

Madisyn has received National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Scholar for Turkish and a Fulbright Canada Killam Fellow for the University of Ottawa. Madisyn is a NextGen Fellow for Foreign Policy for America and a mentor at GirlSecurity.

Madisyn graduated from Arizona State University where she quadruple majored in Political Science, Global Studies, History, and Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, with minors in French and Economics. She is currently pursuing a M.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Madisyn is proficient in French and Turkish and is learning Russian.