Caitlin Forrest is the Director of the Renew Democracy Initiative's Frontlines of Freedom (FOF) program where she focuses on amplifying dissident voices and building communities resilient to authoritarian influence. Prior to joining FOF, she was RDI's Director of Stewardship and previously fundraised for organizations like NPR and the Council for Children's Rights. She spent several years at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) where she focused on nonprofit management and operations. Before moving to operations, she was a Counterterrorism Research Analyst focused on the Taliban and ISIS in Afghanistan. She published ISW’s Afghanistan Threat Assessment map series, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, and others.
