Sarah Margon

Adjunct Senior Fellow

Sarah Margon is an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She has built her career at the intersection of policy, strategy, and politics, advancing a more effective, just, and humane U.S. foreign and national security policy across government, philanthropy, civil society, and the private sector.

She is the founder and principal of Windsong Advisory, a strategic consulting firm. Previously, Margon worked at Soros Fund Management, which manages the Open Society Foundations’ endowment, and before that served as Open Society’s director of U.S. foreign policy, leading a team that made $20 million in annual grants and engaged the U.S. government directly on a range of advocacy and policy issues.

Earlier in her career, Margon was Washington director at Human Rights Watch, associate director for sustainable security at the Center for American Progress, senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), and staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs. In 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to serve as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.

Margon holds a graduate degree from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University.

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