Aryana Petrosky

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE

Aryana has spent nearly a decade learning the practices of cultural translation and bridge-building across many kinds of difference, work rooted in her own life, from rural America to Washington, D.C.

At Fundamental, she supports client work focused on bridge-building and journalism.

Previously, Aryana’s work sat at the intersection of faith, democracy, and civic renewal. She helped create and launch The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics, a nationwide, video-based small-group course designed to reduce political polarization within Christian communities. The project brought together partners across sectors, including the SNF Agora Institute and Christianity Today, and featured a companion album produced with The Porter’s Gate. Before that, Aryana worked with the American Enterprise Institute’s Initiative on Faith & Public Life, organizing events where undergraduates and faculty from across the ideological spectrum discussed public policy, political philosophy, business, and culture. She also served as an assistant producer for the documentary For Love of Neighbor: Politics for the Common Good.

In 2024, Aryana left D.C. to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Edinburgh, where she completed an MTh in Theology in History. Her research explored a “theology of encounter,” a posture for meeting and bridging difference. She is a 2025–2027 Cultura Fellow with the Martin Institute and was a 2023 Civic Renewal Fellow at AEI. A writer and poet, she has published work in Christianity Today, Plough, Comment, The Dispatch, the Scottish Poetry Library, and Vita Poetica.