Girls have unique
national security
insights
Girls have unique
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Value Statement
WHAT IS
NATIONAL SECURITY?
National security means the safety and resilience of people, communities, and technologies that sustain dignity, democracy, and trust. Career pathways include government, industry, and civil society.
Our Approach
We believe the next generation must shape the systems that shape their lives. Instead of teaching national security as a distant or abstract field, we approach it as a living system that touches every part of their daily lives: technology, work, community, environment, and wellbeing.
We provide a supportive space for young people to explore these systems through design thinking, problem-solving, and collaborative exploration, giving them the tools to analyze how challenges like AI, cyber threats, and resource shortages ripple across communities. Our programs invite participants to map problems, study impacts from multiple angles, and imagine human-centered solutions that strengthen trust, resilience, and opportunity. We prioritize intergenerational approaches that foster community, connectivity, and collaboration.
This approach is especially powerful for girls, young women, and gender minority youth who have historically been excluded from shaping security. By centering their insights and lived experiences, we open space for all youth to lead, design, and innovate in ways that reflect the realities of a rapidly changing world.
Those who most directly experience insecurity and vulnerability offer insights that are essential to building a more resilient and inclusive approach to security.
national security
requires girls
Our
Team
STRATEGIC ADVISORS
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Argo Community High School
Girl Security Expert in Residence; (Ret.) Senior Analytic Service officer CIA for Counterterrorism; Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University
Principal, Potomac River Strategies, LLC; Former Under Secretary of the Air Force
CEO and Principal, CAS Strategies, LLC
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors
Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, former Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
President, Howard Consulting Services | Author, The Art of Ronin Leadership
Director of Washington Programs, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
Vice President, Global Security & Resilience and Chief Security Officer at Levi Strauss & Co.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ADVISORY BOARD
Strategic Customer Success Manager at Confluent
Multi-Domain Command and Control/Cyberspace Operations Analyst, Booz Allen Hamilton
Program Analyst with MELE Associates at the National Nuclear Security Administration
Founder/CEO of Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education & Co-Founder of GirlCon Chicago
Advisor for Multilateral Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Office of Secretary of Defense for Policy - Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, Transnational Threats
Policy Program Manager, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Retired Senior Federal Executive
Management & Program Analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy
Policy Resident at Pink Cornrows & Chief Program Officer of Political Strategy at HBCU Collective