Olivia Truesdale
Program Manager
Olivia Truesdale is a Program Manager at FMC. She started as a Program Officer at FMC in January 2022. Olivia graduated with an M.A. in Asian Studies (Korean Studies, Global Communication & Public Diplomacy), summa cum laude, from George Washington University in May 2025. She was an M.A. Fellow at the GW Institute for Korean Studies and received the William R. Johnson Award for Asian Studies, which is conferred to a top graduate. Her group capstone project at GW addressed opportunities for U.S.-ROK economic collaboration in the context of U.S.-China great power competition.
Olivia was a 2022 Fulbright grantee in Masan, South Korea and a two-time Critical Language Scholarship recipient for Korean. Prior to Fulbright, she worked at the National Bureau of Asian Research in their Political and Security Affairs Group. In 2019, she interned at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul’s Nonimmigrant Visa Unit and studied abroad at Yonsei University. She participated in the GW Institute for Korean Studies’ North Korean Studies fall intensive in 2021.
Olivia graduated summa cum laude from Scripps College in 2021 with a BA in Foreign Languages (Spanish, Korean). While at Scripps, she completed a Spanish-language thesis project on global and local cultural influences on the representation of youth experiences in South Korea and Spain. She remains an active member of the alumnae community, serving as Chair of the Scripps Alumnae Leadership Council’s Alumnae/Student Connections Committee, among other volunteer activities. Olivia is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Delta Pi honor societies.