Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery is the Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy with the Charity & Security Network, where she leads the organization's policy goals and is head of the DC office. Her work supports protecting civil society from the harmful impacts of counter-terrorism measures worldwide.  Ashleigh is experienced in working on policy, gender, advocacy, and research, and has worked on peacebuilding across a number of contexts and conflicts. She integrates intersectional gender perspectives and human rights-based approaches across her areas of expertise. She started her career in social service roles supporting women experiencing homelessness and children experiencing abuse 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. Ashleigh has been published in 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 studied at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and 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.