Born and raised in Texas, Olivia Hernandez graduated from the University of Dallas with a bachelors of arts in comparative literature and a concentration in Spanish. She received her master’s in transatlantic relations from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in 2019. The daughter of two immigrants (her dad from Mexico and her mom from Poland) she is fluent in Spanish and Polish and has always been interested in international affairs having studied and lived abroad in Italy, Spain, and Poland before returning to DFW. She also loves listening to reggaeton, getting boba, and traveling.