SUZANNE NOSSEL is the chief executive officer of PEN America and the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Since joining PEN in 2013, she’s doubled its staff, budget, and membership; spearheaded a unification with PEN Center USA in Los Angeles as well as the establishment of a Washington, D.C., office; and overseen groundbreaking work on free expression in Hong Kong and China, Myanmar, Eurasia, and the United States. A leading voice on the subject in the U.S. and globally, she writes and is frequently interviewed about free expression issues for national and international media outlets. She is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other outlets, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs, Dissent, Democracy, and other journals. She served on the board of directors of the Tides Foundation until 2021, and is a former senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Council on Foreign Relations.