Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery
Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery (LinkedIn) is a policy, gender, and advocacy professional. She is an experienced researcher, analyst, and strategist, and has worked on peacebuilding across a number of contexts and conflicts. As the Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy with the Charity & Security Network, she is responsible for leading the organization’s policy goals. Her work supports protecting civil society from the harmful impacts of counter-terrorism measures worldwide. Ashleigh is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University, teaching a course on Gendering Peace & Security. She serves on the Advisory Board of Politics4Her.
She started her career in social service roles supporting women experiencing homelessness and abused children in the U.S., which developed her drive to close the gaps between policy and systems-impacted individuals and communities. She has since had the privilege of working in Botswana, Burundi, the Golan Heights, Israel, Nigeria, Palestine, Timor-Leste, and the United States, and on Afghanistan, Iraq, Namibia, South Sudan, and Syria, with grassroots civil society, peacebuilding organizations, UN agencies, country missions to the UN, consulting groups, and universities.
Ashleigh has been published in Lawfare, Responsible Statecraft, Truthout, Inkstick, and Oneworld Academic with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a volume on ‘Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel’.
She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, specializing in Women, Peace, and Security, and Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with a Minor in Theatre, from the University of California, San Diego.
Though she’s been told repeatedly it can’t be done, Ashleigh’s ultimate goal is to work herself out of a job through partnering in community to achieve collective liberation.
