I serve as the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Social Movements Advisor, the first such position in the U.S. government. I am also a Ph.D. candidate and the Topol Fellow in Nonviolent Resistance at The Fletcher School where I teach and research social movements. My dissertation is comprised of three essays: “Dollars and Dissent: Foundation Support for Social Movement Building,” “Liberating the ‘Enemy’ in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle,” and “Surviving Success: Nonviolent Rebellion in Sudan.”

Currently, I am a Term Member in the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security Fellow, and a member of the U.S. Board of Trustees of Peace Direct. During the 2020-2021 academic year, I was a USIP – Minerva Peace and Security Scholar. During the 2021 calendar year, I was a Graduate Research Fellow at the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

I hold a M.P.A. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago. I have served as a Program Officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative, an electoral observer with The Carter Center, and a board member of the University of Chicago’s Human Rights Program. I co-directed Darfurian Voices, the first public opinion survey of refugees from Darfur on issues of peace, justice, and reconciliation.

My publications include “Nonviolent Resistance” and “The Founding Myth of the United States of America.” My teaching includes “From Gandhi to the Arab Spring: Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Resistance.” I’m the father of twin girls and husband of Nadia Marzouki.

You can contact me at naimarkrowse [at] g m a i l [dot] com.