Kristen McTighe is Senior Strategic Communications Manager at the American Committee for Middle East Rights. Previously, she was Senior Communications Manager at the Middle East Democracy Center and the Freedom Initiative. Prior to that, she spent more than a decade working as a journalist across North Africa and the Middle East, writing for a number of media outlets including the New York Times, Financial Times, USA TODAY, NBC News, the Globe and Mail and others.

She holds an M.A. in Global Communications from the American University of Paris and a B.A. in History and Spanish from the University of Washington and is fluent in French and Spanish.