Dylan Sibbitt is the founder and president of the Kokosing Institute. He graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College, where he studied political science and Japanese, and will spend 2026–27 in Indonesia as a Fulbright researcher studying how young people are navigating artificial intelligence, social media, digital finance, and changing expectations about their futures. Previously, Dylan conducted research on economic security and U.S.–Asia relations with the Wilson Center’s Indo-Pacific Program and worked as a research assistant at Georgetown University. He founded Kokosing to give younger researchers the opportunity to investigate questions emerging in their own lives and to learn how to turn those questions into careful, publicly useful research.