Ellie Sennett is the editor for the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs. In this role, she leads the Programs’ editorial work and oversees its online publication, MENASource.

Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Sennett worked as a reporter, producer, and social media editor at award-winning news outlets. At the Abu Dhabi based The National, she served as a US correspondent reporting from Capitol Hill and the White House on US-Middle East policy. At The National, she built out the publication’s congressional Middle East and North Africa beat and launched, wrote, and edited the View From DC newsletter.

As a reporter-producer at PBS NewsHour, she scripted and produced award-winning broadcast news for correspondents including Nick Schifrin, Amna Nawaz, Lisa DesJardins, and Yamiche Alcindor. As a researcher and associate producer at Al Jazeera English, she worked on UpFront with Mehdi Hasan and the network’s flagship social media program, The Stream.

In 2016, she worked as a communications intern with the Middle East Children’s Institute in Amman, Jordan. She assisted the organization in expanding the scope of its Jordan mission focusing on Palestinian refugees to include work with Syrian refugees, as well. In this role, she conducted field visits to build progress reports on Syrian families receiving hospital treatment in Irbid, Jordan.

Sennett holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from Marymount University. She has studied in an Arabic language program at the University of Jordan and an Israel-Palestine conflict program at Princess Sumaya University of Technology in Amman.