Experience

Ploughshares Fund

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Programs

  • Aug 2022 - Present



N Square

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, DC Hub

  • Apr 2019 - Aug 2022

  N Square is a funders collaborative created in 2014 to introduce innovation and creative thinking into the nuclear risk reduction space. As the Director of the DC Hub, I brought together nuclear risk reduction professionals to collaborate, build community, and connect with innovators and experts from other disciplines, while also bringing nontraditional approaches and voices to the space. Activities included convening virtual monthly virtual brown bags for early career professionals, organizing professional development programs, and hosting conversations about many of the existing field-wide issues. Show less



Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Policy Analyst/Senior Program Coordinator (FMWG)

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2019

  The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation seeks to reduce nuclear weapons arsenals, halt the spread of nuclear weapons, and minimize the risk of war by educating the public and policy makers. My role at the Center and the FMWG focused on efforts to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. Specifically on: educating Congress, as well as the media and public on issues of arms control and non-proliferation, nuclear security, nuclear terrorism; interfacing with and working to inform officials in the Executive Branch, Members of Congress and their personal and committee staff, and other NGOs primarily on matters of nuclear security; conceptualising, organising and implementing public nuclear security-related briefings and panel presentations on Capitol Hill; performing detailed research on relevant arms control and non-proliferation topics; drafting fact sheets, issue briefs, articles, blogs, grant proposals, letters, and testimonies. Show less



The University of Georgia

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Director, CITS / Director of Master in International Policy, SPIA, UGA

  • May 2013 - Aug 2017

  The Center for International Trade & Security at the University of Georgia promotes peace and prosperity through programs that focus on the protection of nuclear material, prevention of nuclear trafficking and denuclearization, as well as mitigation of threats posed by trade in technologies and materials that underlie weapons of mass destruction. The Center carries out its mission by engaging and informing policymakers, industry representatives, educators, students, and the general public, both in the United States and abroad, about the dangers of trade in and theft of weapons and weapons components. At CITS, I worked on nuclear security policy projects, and managed and taught a graduate program in UGA’s School of Public & International Affairs. Show less



Los Alamos National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-Doc Research Associate

  • Jan 2011 - May 2013

  I was the only Political Science post-doc out of a pool of 440 post-docs in the entire laboratory. My expertise and exposure to technical issues have put me in a unique position of having had experience in both science and policy domains. Working in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Division, I focused on non-proliferation policy-related research projects. These included research in the IAEA’s Additional Protocol, a study on the role of U.S. security guarantees in motivating states to renounce their nuclear weapons aspirations, and contributing to the teaching and organisation of LANL’s summer Nuclear Safeguards Technology & Policy workshops. In January 2012, I taught a 15-week upper-level undergraduate/graduate distance education Political Science course, entitled “Nuclear Safeguards & Security Policy”, at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, one of the premier science engineering research universities in the U.S. I designed the course and teaching consisted of two classes (each 75 minutes) per week. Show less



UCL

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Fellow

  • Dec 2007 - Jun 2010

  I taught a course on “International Security”as part of UCL's School of Public Policy Political Studies Affiliate Programme. The course was introduced to second/third year undergraduate students in January 2008, and proved to be very popular, leading to the Department’s decision to make it a permanent course. I designed the course and my teaching consisted of weekly hourly lectures and two hourly seminars. I taught a course on “International Security”as part of UCL's School of Public Policy Political Studies Affiliate Programme. The course was introduced to second/third year undergraduate students in January 2008, and proved to be very popular, leading to the Department’s decision to make it a permanent course. I designed the course and my teaching consisted of weekly hourly lectures and two hourly seminars.



RAND Corporation

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Research Associate

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

  RAND runs an annual 12-week summer research associate programme for PhD students. I worked on a nuclear non-proliferation project that examined strategies controlling nuclear proliferation. This research was published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C, 2010. RAND runs an annual 12-week summer research associate programme for PhD students. I worked on a nuclear non-proliferation project that examined strategies controlling nuclear proliferation. This research was published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C, 2010.



Los Alamos National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Nonproliferation Science Fellow

  • Oct 2005 - Dec 2006

  As the Nonproliferation Science Fellow, I worked on various non-proliferation projects: a comparative analysis of nuclear weapons doctrines and strategy for all nuclear weapon states; the India-U.S. Agreement of civil nuclear co-operation; researching the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540; analysing EU/U.S. differences in strategy in dealing with non-proliferation and the threat of biological weapons; and assisting in the editing and writing of "Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation", a graduate student textbook on nuclear security sciences, published June 2008. Show less



EU Institute for Security Studies

• France
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Fellow

  • Apr 2005 - Jun 2005

  I worked on a research paper looking at the American and European approaches in dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge (“Iran’s Nuclear Challenge and European Diplomacy”). This was published by the European Policy Centre in Brussels (Issue Paper No. 46) in March 2006. I worked on a research paper looking at the American and European approaches in dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge (“Iran’s Nuclear Challenge and European Diplomacy”). This was published by the European Policy Centre in Brussels (Issue Paper No. 46) in March 2006.



International Institute for Strategic Studies

• United Kingdom
• Think Tanks
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 2004 - Mar 2005

  I worked as Dr Gary Samore’s research assistant for six months conducting and collating research for the IISS Dossier on "Iran's Strategic Weapons Programme" (published September 2005). I participated in conferences on nuclear non-proliferation and on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme. I worked as Dr Gary Samore’s research assistant for six months conducting and collating research for the IISS Dossier on "Iran's Strategic Weapons Programme" (published September 2005). I participated in conferences on nuclear non-proliferation and on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme.