Elizabeth Threlkeld

Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program at The Stimson Center @ The Stimson Center

Country

United States

City

Washington

Industry

International Affairs

Skill

Qualitative Research, Community Outreach, Editing, Grant Writing, Human Rights, National Security, Arabic, Policy Analysis, Research, Political Science, Non-profits, Politics, Foreign Policy, Journalism, Strategic Communications, Policy, Peacebuilding, Public Policy, Grants, International Development

Experience

Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program at The Stimson Center

The Stimson Center

2021-8 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, South Asia Program

The Stimson Center

2018-8 - Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Political and Economic Officer, U.S. Consulate General Peshawar, Pakistan

U.S. Department of State

2014-10 - 2016-11 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Islamabad and Peshawar, Pakistan

• Headed the U.S. Consulate's Political-Economic Section in Peshawar, Pakistan, directing USG reporting and engagement efforts along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, supervising staff, and managing budgeting and planning efforts. • Received a 2014 State Department-wide language award for Pashto, a 2015 Meritorious Honor Award for Political-Economic reporting, and a 2016 Superior Honor Award for leadership.

3rd Secretary at U.S. Consulate General Monterrey, Mexico

U.S. Department of State

2012-5 - 2013-12 · 1 yr 8 mos

Monterrey Area, Mexico

• Led the nine-person American Citizen Services Section providing routine and emergency assistance to U.S. citizens in a region experiencing extreme narco-violence. • Adjudicated over twenty thousand non-immigrant, temporary worker (H-2A and H-2B), and investor (E1 and E2) visas. • Received a 2013 Meritorious Honor Award for work supporting American Citizen children of recently deported Mexican parents in their efforts to access educational and health resources.

Media Program Manager

Heartland Alliance

2010-5 - 2011-7 · 1 yr 3 mos

Sulaimaniyah, Iraq

• Managed and monitored U.S. State Department grants totaling $2 million; supervised sixty full-time and contract staff country-wide; completed all budgeting and reporting duties. • Researched human trafficking, gender-based violence, displacement, and access to justice in Arab and Kurdish communities; developed related conflict-sensitive TV, radio, and web content. • Established and managed two Youth Media Centers providing journalism training to students and promoting ethno-sectarian tolerance based on curricula co-authored with program staff.

Education

University of Cambridge

International Relations and Politics

2017 - 2018 · 1 yr

• Hilda Richardson Foundation/Newnham College Scholarship Recipient.

Swarthmore College

Sociology and Anthropology

2005 - 2009 · 4 yrs

• Graduated with High Honors; Phi Beta Kappa • Sociology Honors Thesis: Officially Unofficial: Defining and Defying the Rules of U.S.-Taiwan Relations • War News Radio Senior Producer, Reporter, and Host Awards/grants received: • The Sophie and William Bramson Prize (2009) recognizing an outstanding Sociology and Anthropology graduate; • The Drew Pearson Prize (2009) for excellence in journalism at Swarthmore College; • The Eugene M. Lang Summer Initiative Grant (2008) funding Social Science thesis research in Taiwan; • The Society of Professional Journalists Region One Mark of Excellence Award (2007) for best feature reporting on daily life in Iraq; • The Swarthmore Foundation Summer Grant (2006) supporting summer journalism at War News Radio.