Interruptors on Terrorism

  • Hannah Allam – DC-based reporter covering extremism, domestic terrorism and national security at The Washington Post | Board member at the International Women’s Media Foundation | Staff Profile
  • Nada Bakos – Senior Fellow at FPRI | Former CIA Analyst | Author of “The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House” | Website and Book
  • Mia Bloom – Terror Analysis | Co-Author of “Small Arms: Children & Terrorism” | Staff Profile and Book
  • Laila Bokhari – Board Director at Harvard Kennedy School | Former Deputy Minister at Ministry Foreign Affairs in Norway | Political, Security and Terrorism Analyst | Staff Profile
  • Rachel Briggs – Associate Fellow of Chatham House | Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Center on Cooperative Security | Executive Director of Hostage US | Terrorism expert | Website
  • Joana Cook – Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization | Editor-in-Chief and Senior Project Manager at the International Centre for Counterterrorism | Expert in women in violent extremism, countering violent extremism, and counter-terrorism practices | Website
  • Audrey Kurth Cronin – Professor of International Security and Director at the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology at American University | Former Specialist in Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service | Advising Members of Congress in the aftermath of 9/11 | Staff Profile and Book
  • Jessica Davis – President and Principal Consultant with Insight Threat Intelligence | President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies | International expert on terrorism and illicit financing | Insight Threat Intelligence
  • Chelsea Daymon – Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology | Expert in Islamic movements, terrorism, terror groups’ use of the Internet and encrypted platforms, foreign fighters, radicalization, and de-radicalization | Website
  • Patricia DeGennaro – Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Department of Politics | Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute | Website
  • Bibi van Ginkel – Fellow at the International Centre for Counterterrorism (ICCT) in The Hague | Expert in legal aspects of combating terrorism and prevention of radicalization | Former Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute | Staff Profile
  • Karen Greenberg – Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law | Author of “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State” | Host of Vital Interests Podcast | Staff Profile and Book
  • Julie Chernov Hwang – Editorial Board at Terrorism and Political Violence Journal | Author of “Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right” | Staff Profile
  • Juliette Kayyem – Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard Kennedy School | CNN Analyst | CEO of Grip Mobility | Author of “Security Mom” | National Security Expert | Website and Book
  • Wardah Khalid – Founder and President of Poligon Education Fund | Former FPI Fellow | Former APAICS Congressional Fellow | Policy Analyst, Activist, and Speaker on US foreign policy in the Middle East | Website
  • Alix Levine – Owner of WEBehavior LLC | Staff Profile
  • Tara Maller – National Security Expert | Risk Manager, Public & Social Sectors at McKinsey & Company | Former Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor for the Counter Extremism Project | Former CIA Analyst | Website
  • Tanya Mehra – Senior Research Fellow and Programme Lead (Rule of Law Responses to Terrorism) at the International Centre for Counterterrorism at the Hague | Expert in rule of law approaches in countering terrorism, with a special focus on accountability of terrorism-related crimes and human rights implications of countering terrorism approaches | Staff Profile
  • Laurel Miller – Director of International Crisis Group’s Asia Program | Former Senior Foreign Policy Expert at the RAND Corporation | Former Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the US Department of State | Profile
  • Vera Mironova – Referred to as ‘The Frontline Scholar’ due to her experiences embedded with the Iraq Special Operations Forces | Author of “From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists. Human Resources of Non-State Armed Groups” | Website
  • Kori Schake – Director of Foreign/Defense at AEI | Author of “Safe Passage” | Contributing Writer at The Atlantic and War on the Rocks | Staff Profile and Book
  • Michelle Shephard – Author of “Decade of Fear” and “Guantanamo’s Child” | CBC Podcast Host and Producer | Former National Security Reporter at Toronto Star | Website and Book
  • Randa Slim – Senior Fellow & Founding Director of Conflict Resolution & Track II Dialogues Program at the Middle East Institute | Non-Resident Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies’ Foreign Policy Institute | MEI Profile
  • Jessica Stern – Research Professor at Boston University | Senior Fellow at FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health | Author of “My War Criminal” | Website
  • Dina Temple-Raston – NPR Investigations Correspondent | Host of “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “What Were You Thinking” podcast | Author of “The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror” | Staff Profile and Books
  • Frances Townsend – CBS News Senior National Security Analyst | Former Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Advisor to President Bush | EVP for Corporate Affairs at Activision Blizzard | Staff Profile
  • Jennifer Williams – Senior Foreign Editor at Vox | Co-Host of Worldly Podcast | Staff Profile
  • Robin Wright – New Yorker Writer | Author of “Rock the Casbah” | Joint Fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace and Woodrow Wilson Center | Blog