Bridget Moix serves as the US Board Chair for Peace Direct. She is General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and leads 2 other Quaker organizations affiliated with FCNL: the FCNL Education Fund and Friends Place on Capitol Hill.
She brings with her 25 years of work on international peace and conflict issues, with a focus on US foreign policy and locally-led peacebuilding. She previously served as US Executive Director for Peace Direct and was on the founding US Peace Direct Board. She has also worked with the Quaker United Nations Office, the US Agency for International Development, Oxfam America, the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City and the Quaker Peace Centre in Capetown, South Africa.
Bridget holds a PhD from George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and has taught courses on peacebuilding at various universities. She has two teenage sons who challenge her peacemaking skills every day, and she lives with them in Washington, DC.
