Michele Dunne is executive director of the Franciscan Action Network and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A Middle East specialist at the U.S. Department of State for nearly 20 years, she also headed Middle East programs at the Carnegie Endowment and the Atlantic Council before making a shift to focus on U.S. domestic social justice issues in 2021. She holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University.