Melanie Foley

Melanie Foley (she/her) is Deputy Director of the Global Trade Watch (GTW) division at Public Citizen. With more than a decade of experience in trade and globalization issues, Melanie helps to develop GTW’s strategies to challenge the current corporate-led model of globalization and fight for more just, sustainable, and democratic alternatives. She has led outreach and coalition building strategies to bolster GTW’s campaigns on U.S. trade negotiations and the global movement to roll back damaging international economic structures such as Investor-State Dispute Settlement. Before joining Public Citizen in 2013, she worked at the environmental nonprofit, Appalachian Voices, educating congressional offices on the harms of mountaintop-removal coal mining. She has also worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative intern and on the Potomac River as an outdoor adventure sports instructor. She attended the University of Maryland, where she earned a bachelor’s in Government and Politics and a master’s in Public Policy.