Mariam Memarsadeghi ( fa, مریم معمارصادقی) is an Iranian-American activist advocating regime change in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

Media commentary

Memarsadeghi was born in Iran, but left the country as a child during the 1979 revolution. She provides media commentary on issues such as democratic transition, women's rights, civil society, civic education, Middle East politics, internet freedom, and social media. She has participated in several NPR programs, the PBS NewsHour and

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. She has also appeared on Persian and Arabic language radio and television programs and is frequently interviewed about Iranian politics in both English and Persian. Her writing has been published in journals and in newspapers

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, and

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Public speaking

Memarsadeghi has spoken on issues related to democracy at universities around the world and research institutions such as the

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, American Enterprise Institute,

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, Council for Community of Democracies,

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Freedom House Freedom House is a non-profit, majority U.S. government funded organization in Washington, D.C., that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights. Freedom House was founded in October 1941, and Wendell Wil ...

, Legatum Institute,

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, Texas Lyceum, Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics,

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, Silicon Valley RightsCon,

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., the Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations,

Foundation for Defense of Democracies The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank and registered lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C., United States. The group's political leanings have been described as hawkish and neoconservative ...

, the Ditchley Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy and the

Danish Institute for Human Rights The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) is a national human rights institution (NHRI) operating in accordance with the UN Paris Principles. The DIHR was originally established as the Danish Centre for Human Rights by a parliamentary decision ...

. She has delivered a talk at the UK Parliament and moderated Persian language discussions at Tavaana and delivered public talks in Persian language, such as at the Conference of the Association of Friends of Persian Culture, an annual gathering of over 3,000 organized by Iranian Baha'is in Chicago. Memarsadeghi was a 2017 Presidential Leadership Scholar. She is a regular judge for the

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national finals.

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