Mitzi Perdue is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in the Democratic Resiliance program. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MPA from the George Washington University.

A former rice grower and wine grape grower in California, she served as president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women.  She was also a US delegate to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi and a former Commissioner of the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Her Scripps Howard column, The Environment and You, became for almost a decade the most widely syndicated environmental column in the United States. Today, she writes and speaks on topics such as combating human trafficking, mental health, and artificial intelligence. As a war correspondent reporting from and about Ukraine, she has more than 300 published articles, many of which are informed by interviews conducted in bomb shelters during air raids.