Holly Dagres

Holly Dagres is the Libitzky Family Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy. Previously a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Middle East Programs, Dagres edited the IranSource and MENASource publications and led a working group on human rights, society, and the environment for the bipartisan report The Future of U.S. Strategy Toward Iran: A Roadmap for the Next Administration.

Dagres also curates The Iranist, a widely read weekly newsletter on Iran, and contributes to Operation Environment Watch. Her groundbreaking report, Iranians on #SocialMedia, and her TEDxTalk on the topic have established her as a leading voice on Iranian social movements and generational change. She has been featured in interviews across radio, television, and print, including the Associated Press, BBC News, CNN, NPR, Fox News, and The New York Times. Her work twice earned recognition on the Middle East Policy Council's "40 under 40" list.

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An Iranian-American who spent her teenage years in Iran and graduated from Tehran International School, Dagres returned to the United States to attend UCLA and later earned a master's degree from the American University in Cairo.