Shannon Paige joined Peace Direct as a Scoville Peace fellow in 2020. She now serves as a policy associate as she leads Peace Direct’s research and advocacy efforts around decolonising the peacebuilding system and is working to develop Peace Direct’s U.S. peacebuilding programming. She holds a B.A. in International Studies and Arabic from Kenyon College, where she wrote her senior capstone on how public perceptions of migrant domestic and sex workers impact the hostility of the legal system in their destination countries. She has interned at a number of small international non-profits, most recently at New Light, a non-profit based in Kolkata, India that works with migrant sex workers. She is eager to build upon her first-hand experiences working with conflict-impacted communities to better integrate diverse perspectives into peacebuilding efforts.
