Juan Arroyo is an advisor to the Model European Union and Model United Nations teams. His teaching interests include European Politics, the European Union, International Organizations, Political Parties and Ideologies, Comparative Welfare States, Catholics and Politics, as well as Food and Water: Challenges to Sustainability. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and went on to receive a Masters of Arts and PhD  in Political Science at The American University. He has given multiple academic talks over the years. In June, 2018, he presented "Food and Sustainability: How government both helps and hinders" to the Longview community in Ithaca. Currently he is working on a paper regarding Spanish politics.