Kate Gould serves as the Legislative Director for Middle East Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobby in the public interest. Kate directs FCNL’s lobbying on Middle East policy, and is one of only a handful of registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. working to support diplomatic solutions to disputes between the U.S. and Iran and the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Israel/Palestine. Gould was profiled in 2015 as the “Quaker Lobbyist Behind the Iran Deal Fight,” by Congressional Quarterly, an outlet with readership that includes 95% of members of Congress, and her analysis has been published in USA Today, The Guardian, CNN, TIME and other national outlets.
Kate Gould
Legislative Director for Middle East Policy
Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
Direct: 202-903-2516