Our Team
Elizabeth (Liz) Hume, Executive Director
Liz is a conflict expert and has more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions in bilateral, multilateral institutions and NGOs. She has extensive experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable and complex peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Megan Corrado, Acting Deputy Executive Director and Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy
Megan E. Corrado currently serves as the Acting Deputy Executive Director and Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy with the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is an international lawyer and policy practitioner working to prevent and resolve conflict and atrocities and promote peace, human rights, gender mainstreaming, and justice and accountability. In addition to her work at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, she is an adjunct professor at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where she teaches women’s rights in international law and policy.
Dr. Emily Sample, Director - Research, Evidence & Learning
Dr. Emily Sample is the Director of Research, Evidence, & Learning at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She earned her PhD from the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. Previously, she worked at The Fund for Peace as a Programs Director. She earned her M.A. in Human Rights and Genocide Studies from Kingston University London and her B.A. from The College of William and Mary. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and co-founded the Women's Caucus of Genocide Scholars. Her research spans climate change adaptation, environmental justice, gender, and mass atrocity prevention.
Nick Zuroski, Senior Manager - Policy & Advocacy
Nick’s interests lie at the intersection of peace and stability, gender equality, and grassroots-oriented understandings of human security. He has professional experience in strategic communications, investment research, political economy analysis, and international development. In 2021, Nick received his M.A. in International Affairs — concentrating in Global Gender Policy and International Law & Organizations — from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and his B.A. in Mandarin Chinese and World Politics from Hamilton College in 2017.
Maria Tata, Senior Associate - Policy & Advocacy
Maria graduated from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in May 2024 with an M.A. in Security Policy Studies and a concentration in Conflict Resolution. She previously graduated from Boston University in 2018 with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Business Administration and Management. During college, she studied abroad in Brussels, Belgium, and Geneva, Switzerland—where she interned at the NGO Graduate Women International.
Albert Niu is currently a sophomore at Dartmouth College, working towards a double major in Government and Mathematics
Marina Rosen-Cappellazzo, Research Assistant
Marina Rosen-Cappellazzo is currently pursuing an M.A. in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University, where she designed and hosted The Conflict Forum: Depolarizing Dialogue in Action—a summit that convened experts, graduate students, and practitioners in the peacebuilding field.
Kateryna Molnar, Policy & Advocacy Assistant
Kateryna is a Fulbright Scholar and Muskie Fellow currently pursuing her M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University.
Daniah Jarrah, Research Assistant
Daniah Jarrah is a graduate student in the Conflict Resolution program at Georgetown University, where her research focuses on civil society peacebuilding, and geopolitical constraints in the Middle East.