Raise Your Voice: Mastering Letters to the Editor for Effective Advocacy

Carmiel Arbit is the Senior Director for Government Relations at ADL, where she leads the federal affairs team. As ADL’s chief lobbyist, she oversees policy, legislative strategy and stakeholder engagement with Capitol Hill and the Executive. She has extensive experience working at the intersection of foreign policy and government relations. She is a nonresident senior fellow for Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. She was previously the Director of Strategic Engagement in AIPAC’s office of Policy and Government Affairs, where she helped drive the organization’s strategy for engaging key policy stakeholders. Prior to her time at AIPAC, she worked at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. She has worked in government affairs and public diplomacy for Thomson Reuters, the American Jewish Committee and Penn Schoen and Berland Associates, and as a consultant leading the work of Key Bridge Strategies. Arbit earned her BA from George Washington University and her MS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She has been recognized as a top lobbyist by the Hill three years in a row, and as a top Foreign Policy Influencer by Diplomatic Courier. She is a term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman national security fellow, and a member of the national board of Women’s Foreign Policy Group.