Holland Pratt

Biography

Holland Pratt currently serves as the First Captain of the Corps of Cadets. From Liberty Lake, Washington, Holland is a Military History major with a Middle Eastern Regional Studies Minor. Inspired by her family’s suffering in the Holocaust, Holland’s research focuses on the coordination between military, civilian, and international organizations to prevent and respond to mass atrocities. Recently, she developed a Myanmar Situation Assessment for the United States’ Indo-Pacific Command region. Holland has already begun to prepare for crisis prevention as a leader in West Point’s Mass Atrocity Prevention Practicum, a simulation experience focused on humanitarian crises. Holland hopes to play a formative role in shaping the military’s prevention and resolution of mass atrocities by establishing a Standard Operating Procedure to clarify objectives and to identify ways and means among civilian agencies, the U.S. military, and allied forces in the international community. After West Point, she hopes to commission as an officer in the Armor Branch. As a Rhodes Scholar, Holland seeks to earn an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from Oxford University.