Carolyn Nash is the Asia Advocacy Director for Amnesty International USA. Prior to joining Amnesty, Carolyn lived in Myanmar, where she managed human rights and governance programs. She has also lived and worked on human rights programming in Indonesia, East Timor, Kenya, and Uganda. She was a 2017 Pacific Delegate with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, the 2018 Southeast Asia Fellow for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, a 2021 Penn Kemble Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy, and a 2023 Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholar.
Carolyn received her M.A. in International Relations and Economics with a focus on Politics and Governance from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and her B.A. in English literature from Columbia University.
Recent Publications
Regional
Bangladesh
India
- Interview | India’s harsh anti-terror law comes under rare scrutiny
- Blog | Blinken Must Urge Modi to Repeal Repressive Laws
Indonesia
Myanmar
- Interview | Myanmar’s Anti-Coup Resistance is Running Out of Options
- Interview | This Time, Rights Groups Might Be Less Willing To Champion Aung San Suu Kyi
- Blog | “The ASEAN Way” Leads Nowhere for Myanmar
- Blog | What Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis can teach us about Ethiopia
- Blog | Samantha Power Is Myanmar’s Best Hope for US Support
Philippines
Thailand
vietnam
COVID-19
- Blog | Biden’s COVID-19 Plan Must be Global
- Blog | To End the Pandemic, Protest Prisoners
Education
- Report | Empowering students for just societies: a handbook for secondary school teachers
- Report | #YouthWagingPeace: A Youth-led Report on the State of Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education
Refugees
- Blog | Voices of Rohingya Refugees Must Be Heard
- Blog | Refugee Policy Reform will Earn Biden Political Capital