Former Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions (2023 to 2025)
She was the first woman to lead CGS in its more than 75 year history. She served as Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions from 2023 to 2025.
Shoot has nearly two decades of experience across the non-governmental, inter-governmental, and private sectors, supporting human rights, democratic processes, and the rule of law on five continents. She spent close to a decade at the National Democratic Institute, leading democracy and governance programs in Central and Eastern Europe and Southern and East Africa, steering NDI’s global governance projects, and directing programming for the bipartisan House Democracy Partnership of the US House of Representatives. As Senior Advisor to Parliamentarians for Global Action, she built a global parliamentary campaign for democratic renewal and human rights, and she previously served as Global Programming Director at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative.
She is Co-Convener of the Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court and Advocacy Director of the ICC Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Shoot earned a Juris Doctorate with Honors from Emory University School of Law, a Master of Science in Democracy and Democratisation from University College London, and a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Kenyon College. Her scholarship on the ICC received the Founder’s Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing.
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