Alicia Sanders-Zakre is the Policy and Research Coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. She directs the campaign’s research and policy development, including on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. Previously, she was a researcher at the Arms Control Association and at the Brookings Institution. She has published hundreds of articles, editorials and reports on nuclear weapons, which have been published in numerous publications including general and specialist media publications like Arms Control Today, the Baltimore Sun, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Guardian, the National Interest, and War on the Rocks, as well as in academic journals including The International Review of the Red Cross, Global Policy and The Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. She has also provided expert analysis for several newspapers, radio and TV programs, including Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, Democracy Now!, Deutsche Welle (DW) and Newsweek and regularly speaks on expert panels at universities and other international conferences.

Alicia holds a B.A. in International Security from Tufts University, a M.A.S in the International Law of Armed Conflict from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, as well as a certificate of completion in International Nuclear Safeguards Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Alicia holds a B.A. in International Security from Tufts University, a M.A.S in the International Law of Armed Conflict from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, as well as a certificate of completion in International Nuclear Safeguards Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.