Peace Programs

David Carroll, Ph.D., Director 

David Carroll leads the Center's initiative on developing standards and best practices in international election observation, and has managed or participated in more than 20 Carter Center projects to strengthen democracy and electoral processes. 

Dr. Carroll joined The Carter Center in 1991 as assistant director of the Latin American and Caribbean Program, and since 2003 has directed the Democracy Program. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of South Carolina, has published articles and book chapters on development and democratization, and has taught at Georgia State University and the University of the South.  

David Pottie, Ph.D., Associate Director

David Pottie has worked on election and democracy projects for The Carter Center since 2002 in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.  Dr. Pottie was born in Ottawa, Canada, and he received his doctorate in political science from York University in Toronto.  

Prior to joining the Center, he lived in South Africa for seven years, where he completed research for his doctoral dissertation on housing for the poor.  He was a faculty member at Rhodes University and in 1999 he joined the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, a non-governmental organization based in Johannesburg, where he became the head of research.  He has served on the editorial board of Southern Africa Report and the Journal of African Elections and has published work on African politics, democracy, and development issues.

Rachel Fowler, Assistant Director

Rachel Fowler is assistant director of the Democracy Program. She has worked with The Carter Center since 1992, first with the Human Rights Program, then with the Democracy Program since 1997. She has designed, implemented and managed elections, human rights and democracy programs in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and the United States.

Ms. Fowler manages the Democracy Program's governance programs in Guyana and East Timor, which includes election observation missions in both countries, as well as civil society capacity building and rule of law programs. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Fowler worked with Amnesty International USA and was elected to its board of directors in May 2003. She is currently working towards a master's degree in political science from Georgia State University.

Sarah K. Johnson, Assistant Director

Sarah Johnson is assistant director of the Democracy Program, where she helps implement democracy strengthening programs around the world, including in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and other regions. In previous roles, she designed, implemented, and managed democracy and governance programming in Morocco and the Palestinian Territories, and has professional experience working on political party building, communications, women's political participation, and public opinion research across the MENA region, Europe, and the United States.

Prior to joining the Center, Sarah served as a resident country director for the Middle East/North Africa division of the International Republican Institute and was a senior analyst for Greenberg Quinlin Rosner. She is an expert on political outreach and survey research. Ms. Johnson holds a master of science degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and a master's degree in European sciences from the Humboldt and Frei Universities in Berlin, Germany.

Tynesha Green, Program Assistant

Tynesha Green has been the Democracy Program's program assistant since 1997 and provides logistical and administrative support to the program and its election missions. She has served on Carter Center missions to Nigeria, East Timor, Indonesia, Mozambique, Guyana, Zambia, the DRC, and Kenya.

She attended the University of California at Riverside, where she majored in economics with a minor in administrative studies. Ms. Green previously worked at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the asset disposition department.