Colleen Scribner is a human rights and democratic resilience expert who has held roles at Freedom House, the Public International Law and Policy Group, and the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. Scribner was a 2023 Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and the 2020 Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Rising Experts Human Rights Fellow. She holds a master’s degree from American University’s School of International Service, and her writing has been featured in The Diplomat, The National Interest and Fair Observer.