Lydia D. Smith

Lydia D. Smith is a Master's student at Yale University specializing in Russian, Central European, East European and Eurasian Studies since August 2024. Prior to this, Lydia served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Bulgaria from July 2023 to August 2024 and was an English Language Teacher through the TAPIF program in France from October 2022 to July 2023. Lydia's earlier roles include tutoring at GoPeer from May 2021 to July 2023, a Financial Analyst Intern at Voyager Aviation during summer 2021, and a Research Fellow at Statt Inc. from March to September 2020. Additionally, Lydia was a Research Assistant at the University of Virginia and a Policy Intern at Vemo Education in 2019. Educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs, French, and Russian from the University of Virginia, completed in 2022, and an Advanced Diploma from Briar Woods High School in 2018.