Candace Rondeaux: How Injustice Should Inform Policy

International Security Fellow Candace Rondeaux was interviewed for an article in ADI Magazine about how policy should be shaped and informed by injustices.

Candace Rondeaux’s trajectory seems to align uncannily with the major pivots of recent history. She learned Russian in the midst of the Cold War; found journalism with 9/11; became a policy analyst at the height of the US war in Afghanistan. But the transitions in Rondeaux’s career are also a testament to how she’s chosen to live: keenly engaged with the changing world around her, and also attuned to self-awareness. “There’s something about the idea of a calling, that voice that says, ‘over here, pay attention to this,’” she says of her shifts from literary translation to crime reporting to policy research. “It insists on itself.”

A former South Asia bureau chief for the Washington Post and senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, she is now a senior fellow with New America’s International Security program and a professor at the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. At the heart of her work—whether in activism, journalism, education, or international relations—is a commitment to probing gaps in our assumptions, holding power to account, and applying critical imagination to the future.