Clare Seelke came to Congressional Research Service in 2003 as a presidential management fellow (PMF). CRS is a non-partisan research agency that serves the members and committees of Congress and their staffs, located in the Library of Congress. As part of her fellowship, she completed rotations with the State Department in the Dominican Republic and with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington DC. She currently focuses on Mexico, Venezuela, and Central America, with a special focus on security issues and migration. During her tenure at CRS, Seelke has published numerous reports and confidential memoranda on both country-specific and regional issues in the Western Hemisphere. In August 2017, Seelke completed a Fulbright Specialist grant in Mexico in which she gave lectures at 15 Mexican institutions and universities on bilateral relations. Seelke holds a master's degree of public affairs and master of arts in Latin American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to graduate school, she obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and served as a volunteer in Guayaquil, Ecuador.