Janet Abou-Elias work focuses on U.S. law and foreign policy, emerging technologies, and foreign arms sales. She is a co-founder of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency and a research fellow at the Center for International Policy. At Women for Weapons Trade Transparency, Janet worked to uncover legislative transparency and accountability gaps, with a focus on the intersection of domestic and international impacts of militarism. As a Marcellus Policy Fellow with the John Quincy Adams Society, she focused on the legal framework and governance of U.S. stockpiles and their implications, and she has since interned with the Democratizing Foreign Policy team at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Janet’s fluency in Arabic and firsthand regional experience inform a research agenda centered on transparency, conflict prevention, and people-centered approaches in U.S. Middle East policy. Her writing has appeared in The Hill, Responsible Statecraft, The National Interest, International Policy Journal, Fair Observer, In These Times, and other outlets. Janet holds a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin, where she double majored in International Relations and Global Studies, and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.