As an Arab leadership analyst for four years, I fused regional expertise and all-source intelligence to yield analytic insights, wrote individual profiles, current articles, and in-depth papers on foreign leaders, and provided briefings and analytical support to policymakers.As an insurgent targeting analyst based in a war zone for three months, I compiled targeting studies for military use in tracking insurgent leaders and established the CIA’s role alongside military analysts in a new task force.As a daily briefer for three months, I briefed the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) to the CIA’s third-highest official, via an oral briefing supplemented with a customized binder of accompanying material, and raised the position’s profile internally.As an Operations Center watch officer for six months, I monitored incoming reporting in real time during around-the-clock shifts and flagged key developments for analysts, agency leaders, and policymakers’ briefers.

As a summer intern in the Consulate in Jerusalem, I monitored Palestinian civil and human rights, particularly in East Jerusalem, gathered information for reports to the policymaking and intelligence communities, and attended and documented high-level meetings in the run-up to the Camp David II talks.