Hunter Slingbaum is a Junior Fellow with the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center. They graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2023 with a BA in Political Science, Global Studies, and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. She wrote her senior honors thesis on legislative responsiveness in South Korea, investigating the numerous failed attempts by the ROK National Assembly to pass anti-discrimination legislation.  

Throughout their undergraduate career, Hunter was deeply involved in the UMN chapter of the John Quincy Adams Society, an organization focused on educating young scholars about realist, restraint-oriented foreign policy. She served as president of the chapter for three years, and further became a JQAS Marcellus Policy Fellow in Fall 2022—creating a detailed policy analysis on U.S. military engagement in South Korea. Her research interests include cultural diplomacy, soft power, U.S. grand strategy, U.S. military posturing in the Indo-Pacific, the Korean Peninsula, and global human rights. Hunter has working proficiency in Korean.