Nathalie Grogan is a research assistant in the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on the National Guard, military families, and civil-military relations. She grew up in an Army family. Nathalie graduated from SUNY Geneseo after studying history and French; she earned a master’s degree in public policy from George Washington University. She spent a year in Montpellier, France, as a student and a year in Oyonnax, France, as an English teaching assistant.