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Antonia Wunnerlich is a resident junior fellow with GMF’s Allied Strategic Competitiveness initiative. She works on projects related to transatlantic economic and regulatory dialogue, energy security, and critical technology and innovation ecosystems.

Wunnerlich previously worked at the British-German Association, where she drove the organization’s modernization process and managed development, events, and outreach.

Wunnerlich holds a master’s degree in transatlantic affairs from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the College of Europe. During her studies, she focused on transatlantic security and US-EU trade and technology relations. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in modern languages (German and Russian) from University College London.

Stephanie Siemek is a trainee in the Strategic Demoracy Initatives Program.

Sherrese Smith is the global managing partner of Paul Hastings, a global law firm. She helps direct its growth, management, and strategy. She previously served as the vice chair of its data privacy and cybersecurity practice. 

Smith is known as one of the country’s preeminent data privacy and cybersecurity, and media and technology, attorneys, and is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA and Legal 500. Before joining Paul Hastings, she served as chief counsel to Chairman Julius Genachowski at the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to joining that agency, she was vice president and general counsel of Washington Post Digital.

Smith serves on the board of directors of Gen Digital and Cable ONE. She is also vice chair of the Northwestern Pritzker Law Board and a member of the University of Maryland’s journalism school board. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina and a law degree from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Iana Pancenco Democracy and EU Enlargement Officer for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

Born the son of immigrants from Colombia and Mexico and raised by a single mom, Senator Gallego knows what it means to live the American Dream. In the Senate, he’s fighting to ensure every Arizonan can live theirs, too.

After growing up poor and working every job he could find to help support his mom and three sisters – working at a pizza joint, construction sites, and a meat-packing plant – Sen. Gallego became the first in his family to attend college, graduating from Harvard University.

Motivated to give back to the country that had given him such opportunities, Sen. Gallego enlisted in the Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq in 2005 as an infantryman, serving with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines.

His Company saw some of the worst fighting of the Iraq War, losing 22 Marines and a Navy Corpsman to enemy action in eight months. Following his experience in Iraq, Sen. Gallego committed to ensuring that servicemen and –women are never sent into harm’s way without a plan for winning the fight and securing their wellbeing.

Sen. Gallego was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2010 where he pushed to expand Medicaid and worked across the aisle to secure in-state tuition for all veterans.

In 2014, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Over his ten years in the House, Sen. Gallego fought tirelessly for hardworking Arizonans – distinguishing himself as the highest-ranking Latino on the House Armed Services Committee and defending Arizona’s water supply and natural beauty as a member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

In November 2024, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was sworn in on January 3, 2025, with the promise to fight for all Arizonans.

Sen. Gallego lives in South Phoenix with his wife, Sydney, son, Michael, and daughter, Isla.

Nathaniel Myers is a visiting fellow within the Transatlantic Trusts at GMF, where his research focuses on foreign digital interference in democratic information spaces, democratic resilience, and exiled political movements. He brings over 15 years of experience integrating diplomacy, political analysis, and on-the-ground program management across multiple continents, with particular expertise in Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining GMF, Myers was a senior transition advisor and country representative at the US Agency for International Development, where he led and advised multimillion-dollar grant programs in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He previously served as a policy advisor and speechwriter at the US Mission to the UN, as an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His writing on governance, democracy, and conflict issues has appeared in Foreign Policy, International New York Times, the Washington Post, and other outlets. He holds an MPA from Princeton University and a BA from Harvard University.

Colleen Scribner is deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Program at GMF. Prior to joining the organization, she served as senior program manager for Asia programs at Freedom House, where she led strategy and oversaw human rights and democratic resilience programming across the region. Before that, she worked on Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program, rising from senior program associate to program manager. She designed and implemented rapid response grantmaking, civil society protection, and socio-political change programs for at-risk civil society organizations and human rights defenders in restrictive environments globally. She has also held roles at the Public International Law and Policy Group and the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery.

Scribner was a 2023 Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and the 2020 Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Rising Experts Human Rights Fellow. She holds a master’s degree from American University’s School of International Service in global governance, politics, and security and a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College in diplomacy and world affairs.