Moriah Nacionales-Tafoya is pursuing a Master of Public Policy with an international policy concentration at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Moriah graduated from Wheaton College (I.L.) in 2017 with a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish. Her experiences as an intern at the U.S. Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa and as a Public Policy International Affairs Junior Fellow at Princeton University developed her passion for foreign policy and public service. Additionally, Moriah was a Global Education Fellow in Changsha, Hunan, China, where she learned Mandarin and taught English for a year.

Before her time at Ford, Moriah served in various leadership roles at the Pacific Council on International Policy, a non-profit in Los Angeles, where she worked on projects regarding the U.S. immigration policy, the Sustainable Development Goals, and U.S.-Mexico relations. Moriah is passionate about advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the international affairs sphere and uplifting the next generation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) leaders in foreign policy.