Colleen Scribner is deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Program at GMF. Prior to joining the organization, she served as senior program manager for Asia programs at Freedom House, where she led strategy and oversaw human rights and democratic resilience programming across the region. Before that, she worked on Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program, rising from senior program associate to program manager. She designed and implemented rapid response grantmaking, civil society protection, and socio-political change programs for at-risk civil society organizations and human rights defenders in restrictive environments globally. She has also held roles at 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 in global governance, politics, and security and a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College in diplomacy and world affairs.