Lindsay Milliken
About
In her career, Lindsay has advanced solutions in federal science and technology policy, including high-skilled immigration policy, through the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
She is the first Associate Director of Public Policy Research and Analysis at the American Institute of Physics. In this role, she is working on making science policy more accessible and actionable for the physical sciences community.
At the Institute for Progress, Lindsay specialized in developing policy solutions to attract and retain the best and brightest global STEM talent. This included spearheading work on the Schedule A list, modernizing H-1Bs, and related to J-1s, O-1s, and F-1s.
Lindsay also worked at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, supporting the Science Counsellor in charge of science and technology research, development, and policy relations between the EU and the U.S.
Prior to working with the EU, she worked at the Federation of American Scientists, improving the communication between scientists and Congress, in addition to developing policy solutions to improve the high-skilled immigration system.
Before working at FAS, she worked at Lewis-Burke Associates, dedicated to promoting strong federal funding levels for scientific research at universities.
Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, the Salt Lake Tribune, Inside Higher Ed, Scientific American, the Journal of Science and Policy Governance, the NYU Journal on Legislation and Public Policy, and the University of Chicago Law Review Online.
Lindsay received her bachelor’s in political science with a minor in applied physics from American University.
