Our Team.

  • Janet Abou-Elias

    Janet is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency and a Research Fellow at the Center for International Policy. Her research focuses on international arms trade policy and U.S. foreign policy. She is passionate about creating a world where people's safety and security are central to arms trade policies and sustainable corporate practices become the standard.

  • Lillian Mauldin

    Lillian is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency and a Research Fellow at the Center for International Policy. Her work focuses on political strategy and legislative and grassroots advocacy. Lillian brings expertise and knowledge across a wide range of thematic issues and governance levels, including federal, state, and local. In their work, Lillian hopes to help enact policies that will prioritize holistic human wellbeing over all else and that will demilitarize the institutional fabrics of the United States.

  • Rosie Khan

    Rosie is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency specializing in the intersection of militarism, the environment, and economic policy. They previously volunteered with Rainforest Partnership as the co-lead of Gen Z for the Trees and served on the Forest Declaration Platform advisory committee. They are a writer, researcher, and advocate working toward a solarpunk present and future.

  • Mekedas Belayneh

    Mekedas is a Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency interested in the connections between international economic policy and American militarism. Mekedas is a Policy Advocate for Public Citizen’s Climate Program, where she advocates for equitable financial solutions to address the climate crisis. Mek is hopeful for a world where social welfare is prioritized over private interests.

  • Liv Owens

    Liv is a Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency focusing primarily on the role of gender and emerging technology within the realm of militarization. They are also an educator, and focused on participatory, public research around privacy, literacy, and consent online. They are hopeful for and working towards a world in which data-extraction + surveillance technologies are resisted and self-determination and safety online (and offline) are prioritized.