Along with our partners at the Hertog Foundation and The Public Interest Fellowship, we are pleased to announce our newest class of fellows for our 2020-2021 Security and Strategy Seminar (SSS). This year's SSS will consist of three separate, simultaneous year-long seminars, each focused on a different strategic challenger to the United States: The People's Republic of China, Vladimir Putin's Russia, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Taught by leading scholars in the field, each SSS will consist of 15 evening sessions that will meet from September-May and will afford participating fellows an opportunity to gain a breadth of knowledge on critical subjects, forge relationships with senior scholars and practitioners, sharpen analytical frameworks through written and oral arguments, and build a cohort with their peers.
Our incoming fellows are rising leaders in foreign policy and national security who hail from think tanks, the private sector, and various government agencies. You can read more about the SSS here and learn about the 2020-2021 fellows below.
U.S. - China Strategic Competition Cohort
Samuel Byers, Office of the Secretary of the Navy
Nicholas Carl, American Enterprise Institute
Alex Entz, Department of the Treasury
Sam Gerstle, The Asia Group
Emily Hardman Rodgers, Millennium Challenge Corporation
James Haynes, The Brookings Institution
Cecilia Joy-Perez, Pointe Bello
Katherine Lawlor, Institute for the Study of War
Eric Lee, Project 2049 Institute
Adam Lemon, Office of Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Nicholas Nelson, ST Engineering
Naofa Noll, AOA
David Rader, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
Alexandra Seymour, Speechwriter
Devin Thorne, Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS)
Emily Trapani, House Committee on Homeland Security
Jakob Urda, Gartner Research
U.S. - Iran Strategic Competition Cohort
Melanie Benit, Institute for Justice
Christopher Brodsky, Council on Foreign Relations
James Byers, Northrup Grumman
Briggs DeLoach, Department of Defense
Rodney Dorilas, Republican National Committee
Cameron Keyani, PAE National Security Solutions
Peter Kunze, Office of the Secretary of Defense
LCDR Matthew McKenzie, Navy
Ian Merritt, Office of Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01)
Bailey Victoria Oedewaldt, Overseas Security Advisory Council - Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Ricardo Pita Macedo, Office of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Ashley Rhoades, RAND Corporation
Kelsey Ritchie, Deloitte Consulting
LTJG Patrick Schmidt, Navy
Samantha Stern, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Keeghan Sweeney, Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI)
U.S. - Russia Strategic Competition Cohort
CPT T.S. Allen, Army
Jessica Drun, Project 2049 Institute
Thea Dunlevie, Department of Education
Patty-Jane Geller, The Heritage Foundation
Sydney Fuqua, Institute for the Study of War
Nathalie Grogan, Center for a New American Security
Nathan Hitchen, Conservative Foresight Consulting
Tim Hofmockel, Expanse, Inc.
Shay Khatiri, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Lance Kokonos, American Enterprise Institute
Katherine Nikas, Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Gabriel Noronha, Department of State
Andrew Sanders, Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control
Carsten Schmiedl, Center for European Policy Analysis
Lauren Speranza, Center for European Policy Analysis
Linda Zhang, American Enterprise Institute