Lindsey Penn is a Program Coordinator with the Stevens Initiative. Lindsey comes to the Stevens Initiative from Vital Voices, where she helped administer grants and implement programs for the Voices Against Violence’s gender-based violence programs in the Middle East and North Africa. She has previously held positions at New Story Leadership (a leadership program bringing young leaders from Israel and the Palestinian Territories to the U.S. for a summer of leadership training) and Arab America (an online platform for current political, economic, and cultural events in the Arab-American community). Lindsey earned a B.A. in International Studies with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Denver, and during her undergraduate studies, she studied in Amman, Jordan for an academic year.