Tristin Schultz is from Pasco, Washington. He graduated from Seattle University, where he studied International Relations and Economics focused on the Korean Peninsula's political economy and North Korea’s human rights violations. He has interned at the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, where he researched the North Korean informal economy and the security-human rights nexus, and with the U.S. Embassy in the Marshall Islands. In 2019, Tristin studied abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea as a David L. Boren Scholar and most recently taught in Masan, South Korea as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. As a 2024 Thomas R. Pickering Fellow, Tristin eagerly anticipates preparing for a career in the U.S. Foreign Service at the Walsh School. He is proficient in Korean.