Our team

Madeleine is a senior studying Political Science and Data Science at Yale. Her experience in mentoring students spans from Yale Young Global Scholars in New Haven, to high schools in rural Panama, to students in São Paulo with Yale Model United Nations. At Yale, she debates with the Yale Political Union, volunteers with the Yale Community Kitchen, and conducts research at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies. In her free time, she loves to sew and play video games.

Will is a junior at Yale from New York City. He is currently majoring in history, with a special interest in Eastern European history and historical memory. He has privately mentored over 30 students. His students have been accepted into every Ivy League university, and other top universities including Stanford, MIT, and West Point. He was also a two-time instructor at Yale Young Global Scholars, where he taught seminars on Hannah Arendt and Leszek Kolakwaski. He loves practicing magic and watching old films in his free time.

Owen Hathaway Hacker is a junior at Yale University studying history with a focus on international and diplomatic history. At Yale, he is a member of the 2025 cohort of the Brady-Johnson program in Grand Strategy and a Millstone Fellow in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He is an undergraduate editor with the Yale Law Journal and a research assistant for Yale Law professor John Witt. Outside of the classroom, he is a captain of Yale’s ultimate frisbee team and works as a barista at Yale’s student-run café, the Acorn.