Bridget Moix

Senior Legislative Secretary, Foreign Policy

Bridget leads FCNL’s foreign policy, lobbying to end current wars and prevent new ones. In this role, she guides both the Peaceful Prevention of Deadly Conflict program, which advocates improved US capacities to help prevent and mitigate deadly conflict, and the Greater Middle East Diplomacy program, which lobbies for the peaceful resolution of specific conflicts, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel-Palestine.

Bridget has worked for 15 years on peace and conflict issues within the U.S. and international policy arenas, as well as with local peacebuilding organizations. Her areas of expertise and experience include conflict prevention and peacebuilding, the United Nations, the international affairs budget, arms trade and disarmament, and religious peacemaking. She has focused regionally on sub-Saharan Africa and, more recently, the Greater Middle East.

Bridget began her career with FCNL as an intern in 1996 and worked as a Legislative Secretary from 2002-2006 and 2008-2011, before assuming her current role as Senior Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy. She has also worked as director of the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City (2006-2008), with Oxfam America as policy adviser on Sudan (2005), the Quaker United Nations Office in New York under a New Voices fellowship (2000-2002), the World Policy Institute’s Arms Trade Resource Center (1998-2000), the Quaker Peace Center in Cape Town, South Africa (1999), and as an intern with the American Friends Service Committee during college.

Bridget holds a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University, where she focused her studies on human security and international conflict resolution. She received her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Nonfiction Writing from Ohio Wesleyan in 1996. Bridget has traveled widely, including visits to South Africa, Kenya, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda, the Philippines, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and various countries in Europe. She lived for three years in Mexico.

Bridget is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and has served on committees of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, the Friends Peace Teams Latin America Peacebuilding Program, and the Clarence and Lily Pickett Endowment for Quaker Leadership.

Bridget lives in Washington, DC, with her partner Alberto and their sons Pablo and Santiago.

Read a profile of Bridget in The Washington Examiner from March of 2012.

Read Bridget's 2010 keynote address to North Pacific Yearly Meeting.

Hear Bridget's 2009 presentation to the Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association.

Hear the question and answer session from the 2009 presentation.