Nadine Maenza is a speaker, writer, and policy expert with more than two decades of experience advocating for working families and advancing international religious freedom. 

She serves as Co-Chair of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Roundtable in Washington, DC, Senior Advisor to Shai Fund, and Chair of the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). She previously served for four years on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), including her final year as Chair. She also served as a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. She advises the U.S. government and international partners on international religious freedom, inclusive governance, and foreign policy. 

Nadine currently serves on the boards of Sinjar Academy and the Freedom Research Foundation, is Co-Chair of ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities, and is a member of the Committee on Conscience at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. She is a graduate of Penn State University, is married with three adult children, and lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania.