Autumn Lewien is a program manager and Chief of Staff of the Bridging Divides Initiative. She most recently served for two years as a Senior Research Specialist with BDI. Autumn previously served as a Senior Government Relations Analyst and Princeton in Asia Fellow at Vriens & Partners in Burma, working on policy issues in Burma’s energy, healthcare, and tech sectors.

Prior to this, Autumn was a Program Associate and Participant Manager at Halifax International Security Forum, an independent think tank based in Washington, DC. In this position, she worked on a wide range of international security issues related to technology and cybersecurity, resource management, and the impact of conflict on governance and economic stability.

Autumn has also worked as a political and public policy staff writer for Ballotpedia, a US-focused political media organization, as a data consultant for a San Francisco-based consulting company, and as a research assistant for the Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC). Autumn graduated from Princeton University in 2015 with a BA in comparative politics.