About Me

Professional Background

Current

• Chief Operating Officer at FilterLabs.AI, an early-stage venture-backed tech firm with agentic tools that verify and geotag custom-curated sources to route credible, context-rich signals into customer workflows

• Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the CSIS Futures Lab, a team embracing data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning and alternative analysis to revolutionize policy-driven research

• Board member of the Andi Leadership Institute for Young Women, a non-profit organization that equips the next generation of young women peacebuilders with the necessary conflict resolution and leadership skills during their formative years, providing them with greater access to peace negotiations and leadership positions in the future

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Previous

• Deputy Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Tier 2 NC-SES) Biden-Harris Administration appointee

• Senior Advisor at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (GS-15 Schedule C) appointee focused on advancing humanitarian interests in international financial institutions

• Director of the Project on Fragility and Mobility and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; managed research team on migration, conflict, climate change, state fragility, and technological disruption

• Senior state-level experience on multiple presidential campaigns

• Adjunct Lecturer at Syracuse University's Maxwell School teaching graduate-level courses on global fragility and resilience

• Field experience in conflict zones across Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia