Colleen Scribner & Sonya Radetsky

Colleen Scribner is Program Officer at the Lifeline Fund for Embattled CSOs at Freedom House and the 2020 Human Rights Fellow at Young Professional in Foreign Policy. She has previously held positions at the Public International Law and Policy Group, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. She holds an M.A. in Global Governance, Politics, and Security from American University’s School of International Service and a B.A. in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College. Sonya Radetsky is the founder of Aula Artesana, a company based in Cusco, Peru that works with Indigenous artisans from across the country, helping to bring their goods to market and hosting workshops in which visitors spend several days in artisan communities studying their craft and culture. She is also the co-owner of Aulita, a restaurant and cultural center in Cusco. She holds an MA in Social & Consumer Psychology and BAs in Global Liberal Studies, with a concentration in Politics, Rights and Development, and Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures from New York University.