Elizabeth Shackelford is a Distinguished Fellow in International Affairs at Dartmouth College. She served as a career diplomat in the U.S. State Department, with postings in Warsaw, Poland, South Sudan, Somalia, and Washington, D.C. Her outstanding work in South Sudan during the civil war earned her the prestigious Barbara Watson Award for Consular Excellence.

She gained international recognition for her principled resignation in protest of the State Department policies of the Trump administration, which sparked important discussions about diplomacy and governance. That led to her book, The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age, which chronicles the challenges facing US foreign policy in the modern world.

Shackelford is a regular foreign affairs columnist with the Chicago Tribune, and her commentary has also been published in Politico, Los Angeles Times, and Slate. She frequently appears on media outlets such as CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and Voice of America to provide foreign policy analysis. Shackelford has a BA from Duke University and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh.