Huge congrats to the 2023 NextGens! And special shoutouts to the brilliant and talented @LisaEinstein and terrific national security communicators and “Pitch” alum @MycalFord and Sara Plana! We are so lucky to have you and the rest 2023 class in the program.

I am excited to introduce and welcome CNAS Middle East Security program’s newest senior adjunct fellow, Suzanne Kianpour! Suzanne is working to elevate the voices of women throughout the Middle East, and I’m thrilled to associate our program with her efforts! See below! 👇

Thrilled to welcome Suzanne Suzanne Kianpour to CNAS where she will be the lead author on “Women, Power & Security.” Suzanne’s a brilliant journalist and I’ve had the privilege of working with her for about a decade. This will be great! cc Jonathan Lord drive.google.com/file/d/1y4fZNP…

So excited for this. Happy International Women’s Day!

Excited to be part of CNAS’s The Pitch! I’ll be discussing the need for an entity under DHS dedicated to electoral cybersecurity cnas.org/pitch2023 Tune in and VOTE for my pitch (if you’re so inclined!) this Wednesday 12pm CDT/1pm EDT at cnas.org/live #CNAS2023

The Pitch as about to go live! ⁦⁦CNAS ⁦Kate Kuzminski⁩ Live Events | Center for a New American Security (en-US) cnas.org/live

Round 2 of The Pitch: "Institutions and People Power" is about to go LIVE. Watch here 👇x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

NEW The 2023 CNAS National Security Conference is open for registration. Join us in June for two days of sessions that will examine the purpose and future of American power. conference.cnas.org

Happy to have stopped by CNAS’s 2023 National Security Conference to discuss the significant work we’re doing to promote responsible military use of #ArtificialIntelligence and highlight the importance in considering uses for technology that can allow for risk reduction.

Don’t miss it! Join NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and me today at 11am (DC) on the Center for a New American Security CNAS #BrusselsSproutspodcast. We will be talking to Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend about all things NATO.

Great to have my old boss ASD for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs back in the office at CNAS talking Indo Pacific Security architecture with Lisa Curtis. #cnas2023

@frinightmovie is now in 1st place Signal Awards Listener’s Choice #signalawards. RT + VOTE: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/…

My heart is in Israel — reflections on behalf of NCJW 🧵: We are outraged and heartbroken by the tragic events unfolding in Israel today, including Hamas infiltrating southern Israel and carrying out the reprehensible act of targeting, kidnapping, and killing Israeli civilians.

.President Donald J. Trump: Israel has the right to defend itself - and its people. Full stop. Let there be no mistake: The U.S. stands with the State of Israel, just as we have from the moment the U.S. became the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its founding, 75 years ago.

Hamas’ terrorist attack conjures memories of the Yom Kippur war. 50 after that surprise attack, a new war has come. Oct 7 will be remembered in Israel as a tremendous national trauma. Yet it’s worth recalling that Israel, not the countries that launched the war, won in 1973. (1)

This piece in Tablet Magazine by Allison Tombros Korman is deeply troubling, and a must read addition to the post-10/7 canon: "On Nov. 17, 2023 I resigned from my dream job at the DC Abortion Fund (DCAF). In the four months since my resignation, the organization seemed to have grown