Mai Truong

Mai Truong served as Freedom House's Director of Talent & Culture. In this capacity, she led organizational culture building and learning initiatives and supported general human resources functions.

Truong formerly served as the Director for Research Operations, managing various aspects of the Research department's projects and teams. She first joined Freedom House in 2012 to help expand Freedom on the Net, Freedom House’s annual survey of internet freedom in 65 countries around the world. Her internet freedom expertise has been cited in the New York Times, Quartz, Deutche Welle, Foreign Policy, and others.

Prior to joining Freedom House, Mai worked as an advocacy coordinator at the international humanitarian aid organization, Action Against Hunger, and was a research assistant at Yale University studying women’s rights and access to land in rural Uganda. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of California, San Diego and a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University.