Yanique Campbell is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service leading tech and digital policy at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. She won the Superior Honor Award for extraordinary support of Kenya becoming the first African country to receive CHIPS Act funding for semiconductor manufacturing. Before Kenya, she used regional data and statistics to track migrant and refugee flows across the Western Hemisphere, informing policy debates and decision-making from the White House to Congress. She earned a Meritorious Honor Award for exceptional human rights reporting. Her support of Mission-critical efforts in consular matters protected American citizens and championed investment in multiple sectors across the United States.

Yanique holds a Master’s in Global Development from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service with a focus on social enterprise and a Bachelor’s in U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America from American University’s School of International Service. She is a 2022 Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leader. Early career, Yanique worked as a Foreign Policy Fellow in the Senate, at the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, at the World Food Programme Latin America and Caribbean Regional Bureau in Panama, and as a Spain Fulbright grantee. She speaks fluent Spanish and is studying Swahili and Portuguese. She enjoys cooking and traveling around the world.