Meet our Executive Director!

Caroline Mays

Executive director

Caroline has served as the Executive Directory of New Story Leadership (NSL) since 2022. Her earlier career was divided between staff experience in offices and committees on Capitol Hill and extensive work in media, non-profit development organizations and civil society institutions in the Middle East, including four years of work in the West Bank. Caroline served in both the offices of House members and for the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Her work in the Middle East included leading communications and external relations for Ma’an Network, a Bethlehem-based NGO and the largest, independent media organization in the Palestinian Territories. In addition, she held program management roles at the Bethlehem Development Foundation.

A longtime advocate of women’s and girls’ rights and trained in conflict resolution, Caroline joined Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s official delegation at the 2014 celebration in Oslo, Norway. She holds a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from The American University of Paris and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from The George Washington University.