Senior Program Manager, Human Rights & Freedom
Alexis Mrachek is Senior Program Manager of the Human Rights & Freedom Program at the McCain Institute at Arizona State University. In this role, she engages with policymakers and other stakeholders to advance values-driven American leadership on international human rights. Prior to joining the McCain Institute, Mrachek was a Program Officer at the International Republican Institute (IRI), where she focused on implementing democratic programming in Eastern Europe. Before working at IRI, she was a Policy Analyst for Russia and Eurasia at The Heritage Foundation. In her research and writing there, she focused on domestic politics and security issues within the Eurasia region, as well as the Putin regime’s abuses of fundamental rights and freedom. Prior to Heritage, she was a Staff Assistant at the Rumsfeld Foundation.
Mrachek earned her MA in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS), and her BA in Russian and International Studies at Texas A&M University. A seventh-generation Texan originally from San Antonio, Mrachek currently resides in Washington, D.C.
