Stern Attends 2019 Aspen Security Forum

Jessica SternResearch Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended the recent Aspen Security Forum, a gathering where leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines engage in discussions on the key security issues of the day to answer critical questions about national and homeland security.

Held at the Aspen Institute’s campus in Aspen, Colorado from July 17-20, 2017, the forum is attended by  top level present and former government officials from agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Justice, and the Treasury; industry leaders; and nationally noted print and broadcast journalists.

Stern also attended the Homeland Security Experts’ Group meeting, held in Aspen just before the Security Forum, from July 15-17, 2019.

On July 9, 2019, Stern attended the FBI Counterterrrorism Division’s Academic Roundtable in Washington D.C.

Stern has held fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Erik Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation.  She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.  Stern taught as a Lecturer at Harvard University from 1999-2015.  Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  Stern has nearly completed her training as an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. Learn more about her here