Suzanne Nossel
Suzanne Nossel is Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, and a leading voice on free expression issues in the United States and globally. She is the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Over her ten-year tenure, she has established a Washington, D.C. office, and overseen groundbreaking work on free expression in Hong Kong and China, Myanmar, Eurasia, and the United States. She was Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, and a diplomat in the Obama and Clinton administrations, where her work focused on the United Nations. PEN America has been at the forefront of the defense of free expression in the current climate of spreading book bans, classroom gag orders and other attacks on free expression and free speech in education, both K-12 and colleges and universities. PEN America also focuses on suppression of freedoms in Iran and Russia’s attempt to eradicate the Ukrainian culture.
