POLICY ENGAGEMENT
Co-Founder, Future Strategy Forum
I co-founded and collaborate with sponsors and a graduate student team to organize the Future Strategy Forum (FSF), an initiative that aims to amplify the voices of diverse women in the field of international security, bridge the academic-policy divide, and create mentorship opportunities and community for junior scholars. The centerpiece of FSF is a yearly conference made possible with support from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Henry A. Kissinger Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). This year’s conference focused on the implications of Covid-19 for the U.S. military, grand strategy, and democracy and governance. FSF’s student cohort collaborated with Bridging the Gap and Chatham House’s International Affairs to produce the “Pandemic Politics” series. Follow @FSFConference.
Adjunct Researcher, RAND Corporation
Visited the Urban Warfare training facility in Pabradė, Lithuania to inform an evaluation of security cooperation in the Baltics.
Conducted a tabletop exercise (TTX) at the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) to inform a study of NATO alliance cohesion in an ambiguous Article V scenario.
Conducted interviews with Iraqi general officers in Jordan and Iraq to inform a study of the Iraqi Army (faces covered for anonymity)
photos (from top to bottom and left to right): visiting NATO HQ as a German Marshall Fund Manfred Worner Fellow; participating in Future Strategy Forum panel “From the Situation Room to the Seminar Room (credit: CSIS); visiting Pabrade (credit: anonymous); MOD Whitehall (credit: Skansa); with interpreter and interviewee in Amman, Jordan (credit: anonymous)