Brian Frydenborg has a cross-disciplinary background in humanitarian aid/relief, international development, international affairs, government, public policy, writing, journalism, research, and consulting. He grew up in in a suburb of New York City called Weston, Connecticut, and attended Canterbury School in New Milford, CT. As an undergraduate at Washington and Lee University, he engaged in a rigorous double major program of Politics and History. His main abroad experience in college was in Japan, but he also had more minor experiences in Cuba and Europe. Upon graduation, he volunteered for several political campaigns in Boston, including the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where a chance meeting with then-Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and his Chief-of-Staff eventually led to an internship in the Senator's Washington, DC, office in 2006.

After doing substantive work in the United States Senate while just an intern, and after some time in the private sector, he began his graduate studies at George Mason University's School of Public Policy. While also working part-time, he completed his Master of Science (M.S.) in Peace Operations, with his program defining a peace operation "as an intervention into a complex contingency [due to conflict and/or natural disaster] for the purpose of maintaining or restoring peace." The completion of his degree included studying abroad in Liberia--evaluating the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)--and also included studying abroad in Israel and the West Bank, examining the conflict there.

He is now currently freelancing--a role in which he recently had dozens of articles published--and is based in Amman, Jordan. Brian can be found on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (where you can follow him at @bfry1981).

You can also visit his website, with much of his portfolio, here: , and most of his most recent work is available here: