Elections and Democracy Fellow
Isabel Linzer is an Elections and Democracy Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. She has a range of research and advocacy experience in human rights, democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, and technology.
Prior to joining CDT, Isabel graduated with a Master’s in Public Policy from the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. As a graduate student, Isabel worked with the technology and human rights team at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and served as a teaching fellow for a quantitative research methods course.
Isabel was previously a researcher at Freedom House, where she led Election Watch for the Digital Age, a project tracking the intersection of elections, the internet, and human rights around the world. She also coordinated research for Freedom in the World and Freedom on the Net, the organization’s annual reports on political rights and civil liberties and on internet freedom, respectively. At Freedom House, Isabel played a key role in establishing transnational repression as a new research and public policy field, co-authoring reports on digital and physical attacks by governments against their nationals overseas. Before joining Freedom House, Isabel supported the National Democratic Institute’s election observation mission to Liberia’s 2017 presidential election. Her writing has been published in outlets including The Washington Post, Slate, Just Security, and Foreign Affairs. Isabel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and French from Wesleyan University.
Find Isabel on X at @isabelalinzer.
