Meet the New America Cybersecurity Team

New America’s Core Cybersecurity Initiative Team

Kevin Bankston is the Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Initiative and the Policy Director of the New
America’s Open Technology Institute, where he works in the public interest to
promote policy and regulatory reforms to strengthen communities by supporting
open communications networks, platforms, and technologies, with a focus on
issues of Internet surveillance and censorship. Prior to leading OTI’s policy
team, Kevin was a Senior Counsel and the Director of the Free Expression
Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Since 2005, he has served
on the board of the First Amendment Coalition, a non-profit public interest
organization dedicated to advancing free speech and a more open and accountable
government, and previously was a nonresident fellow at the Stanford Law
School’s Center for Internet & Society. Prior to CDT, he worked at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, where, as a Senior Staff Attorney at EFF, he
was a lead counsel in EFF’s lawsuits against the National Security Agency and
AT&T, challenging the legality of the NSA warrantless wiretapping program
first revealed in 2005. He originally joined EFF as an Equal Justice
Works/Bruce J. Ennis First Amendment Fellow, studying the impact of post-9/11
anti-terrorism surveillance initiatives on online privacy and free expression.
Before joining EFF, he litigated Internet-related free speech cases at the
national office of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City as a
Justice William Brennan First Amendment Fellow. He received his JD at the
University of Southern California Law School after receiving his BA at the
University of Texas at Austin.

Megan E. Garcia is the lead for the Initiative’s Women in Cyber work, a Senior Fellow and Director of Growth, California, exploring how the work of New America’s programs links to exciting local approaches to problem solving taking place on the west coast. She is an expert on national security policy and writes about how it can be better informed by the processes deployed in Silicon Valley and other centers of innovation. Previously Megan was a Program Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she oversaw the creation of the foundation’s Cyber Initiative, designed to help generate a field of cybersecurity and Internet Policy experts more focused on the public good. She also oversaw Hewlett’s Nuclear Security initiative, a portfolio of grants with the goal of reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world. Megan has been Military Legislative Assistant to U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Policy Fellow for U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown during his time in the House of Representatives, a consultant to USAID’s Office of Military Affairs, and has worked for Public Citizen California.

Robyn Greene is the
policy counsel for the Open Technology Institute at New America Foundation
specializing in issues concerning surveillance and cybersecurity. She
helps to research and develop policies to protect individuals’ privacy, secure
the Internet, and fuel the development of and access to emerging technologies. Prior
to joining the Open Technology Institute, Ms. Greene worked at the American
Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, where she focused on
legislation and Administration policies concerning surveillance, cybersecurity,
government secrecy, and federal law enforcement oversight. Before working
at the ACLU, Ms. Greene ran issue based grassroots advocacy campaigns with
Grassroots Campaigns, on behalf of non-profit organizations including Amnesty
International and the ACLU. Ms. Greene earned a B.A. in government and
politics at the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from Hofstra University
School of Law.

Robert Morgus is a Program Associate at New America’s Open
Technology Institute, where he combines his technical knowledge with a
background in international relations to provide policy relevant research and
writing at the intersection of cyber space and international affairs. He
focuses broadly on issues pertaining international cybersecurity and
cyberwarfare, and Internet governance and freedom. His work has been showcased
in The New York Times, TIME, Slate, and others. Before joining the New America,
Robert provided research and logistical assistance for a variety of organizations
ranging from sustainable development firms to political action committees.
Robert received his B.A. with honors in Diplomacy and World Affairs from
Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2013 where he focused on international
security and strategy. While at Occidental, he was the recipient of the Young
Fund Student Grant to conduct research on ethno-nationalism in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. His capstone thesis “Economic Shocks as
a Catalyst for Instability: Conditions and Transmission Channels” was one
of six honored by the college.

Peter W. Singer is a Strategist and Senior Fellow at New
America. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on 21st century
security issues and is the author of multiple award-winning books. He has been
named by the Smithsonian Institution-National Portrait Gallery as one of the
100 leading innovators in the nation, by Defense News as one of the 100 most
influential people in defense issues, and by Foreign Policy magazine to their
Top 100 Global Thinkers List. His books include Corporate Warriors: The Rise
of the Privatized Military Industry, Children at War, and Wired
for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. His most
recent book, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know,
was named to both the US Army and US Navy professional reading list. Singer is
a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine and the founder of
NeoLuddite, a technology advisory firm. He has consulted for the US military,
Defense Intelligence Agency, and FBI, as well as advised a wide-range of technology
and entertainment programs, including for Warner Brothers, Dreamworks,
Universal, HBO, and the video game series Call of Duty, the best-selling
entertainment project in history. He is a member of the US State Department’s
Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. His
past work included serving as coordinator of the Obama-08 campaign’s defense
policy task force, in the Balkans Task Force at the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, and as the founding director of the Center for 21st Century Security
and Intelligence at The Brookings Institution, where he was the youngest senior
fellow in its 100 year history.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is currently the President and CEO of New
America, a think tank and civic enterprise with offices in Washington and New
York. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of
Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009–2011 she
served as director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of
State, the first woman to hold that position. Upon leaving the State Department
she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award for her work leading
the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, as well as meritorious
service awards from USAID and the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. Prior to
her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2002–2009 and the J.
Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at
Harvard Law School from 1994-2002. Dr. Slaughter has written or edited six
books, including A New World Order (2004) and The Idea That Is America: Keeping
Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007), and over 100 scholarly
articles. She was the convener and academic co-chair, with Professor John
Ikenberry, of the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research
project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national security strategy for
the United States. In 2012 she published the article “Why Women Still Can’t
Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became the most read article in
the history of the magazine and helped spawn a renewed national debate on the
continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality. Dr. Slaughter writes
a monthly column for Project Syndicate. She provides frequent commentary for
both mainstream and new media and curates foreign policy news for over 80,000 followers
on Twitter. Foreign Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top
100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. She received a B.A. from
Princeton, an M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations from Oxford, where
she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard. She is married to
Professor Andrew Moravcsik; they live in Princeton with their two sons.

Ian Wallace is a Senior Fellow in the International
Security Program, and Co-Director of New America’s Cybersecurity
Initiative. His research is mainly focused on the international security and
military dimensions of cybersecurity policy. He is also a member of the ‘Future
of War’ project. Ian joined New America from the Brookings Institution where he
spent two years in the Foreign Policy Program as a Visiting Fellow for
Cybersecurity. He was previously a senior official at the British Ministry of
Defence (MOD). From 2009-2013 Wallace was as the British Embassy, Washington’s
defense policy and nuclear counselor. There he helped develop new UK/US mil/mil
cyber link at both the operational and policy levels. Before joining the
embassy he was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University where
his research included working on the military implications of cyber
capabilities. During his UK MOD career, he combined strategy and planning
positions with operational postings to Pristina (2001-2002), Basra (2005) and
Baghdad (2007-2008). He also served as the head of policy at the UK’s
operational HQ (2002-2003). His Whitehall appointments included Deputy Director
of Capability, Resource and Scrutiny and Assistant Director of Defence
Resources (with day-to-day responsibility for the UK MOD’s overall resource planning
process). From 2000-2001 he was the Assistant Private Secretary to the UK
Defence Secretary. Wallace has a degree in ancient and modern history from
Christ Church, Oxford University.

Andi Wilson is a Policy Program
Associate at New America’s Open Technology Institute, where she researches and
writes about the relationship between technology and international relations.
With a specific focus on cybersecurity, Andi is currently working on issues
including encryption, surveillance, and Internet freedom. Before joining New
America, Andi received a Master of Global Affairs degree through the Munk
School at the University of Toronto. While there she conducted research on how
revelations of increased Internet surveillance have impacted the ability to
identify global threats. Andi completed a placement at the Embassy of Canada in
Bangkok, where she covered the transnational crime, human rights, and cyber
files for Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. Her Honors B.A. is in
Political Science, also from the University of Toronto.