Caitlin Forrest

Caitlin Forrest is SEGL's Director of Advancement. Prior to joining SEGL, she fundraised for organizations like NPR, the Council for Children's Rights, and the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI). Most recently, she worked as the Director of the RDI's Frontlines of Freedom (FOF) program which focused on amplifying dissident voices and building communities resilient to authoritarian influence. She spent several years at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in nonprofit management and operations, as well as a Research Analyst covering the Taliban and ISIS in Afghanistan. She published ISW’s Afghanistan Threat Assessment map series, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, and others.