Jack Mulcaire is a senior International Relations, History and Arabic student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. During the 2011 Libyan Civil War, he worked with a group of international volunteers that aided and consulted with local rebel councils and units. He has closely followed the war in Syria and is acting as a weapons expert for a documentary on the war that is currently in production. He has also aided New York Times writer Damien Spleeters in researching the arms trade in the Syrian conflict.