Political Reform's New Models of Policy Change Initiative is supporting a conversation that promotes policy innovation in U.S. security and connects it to diversity in personnel and thought.
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Heather Hurlburt signed a solidarity statement against racism and discrimination by WCAPS, alongside 150+ other organizations and individuals in the fields of peace and security, national security, and foreign policy.
Hear from Amb. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the State Department; Bishop Garrison, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of Defense for Human Capital, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at DoD; and Commander (ret) Theodore Johnson, DLP about the steps forward the Biden administration has taken on diversity in security policymaking — and where progress still needs to be made.
Watch our virtual event with Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Out in National Security celebrating the 2021 honorees.
Watch our virtual panel, co-hosted with Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), exploring what innovation in national security policy looks like today.
Learn more about the prize-winning authors from our 2020 essay contest and read their published essays.
Watch our virtual event with the Diversity in National Security Network (DiNSN) where leaders in foreign policy and national security discussed the transformative efforts that will lead to sustained change around racial justice.
Watch our virtual event with Out in National Security featuring a conversation with four rising LGBTQIA+ national security leaders.
Submit your policy essay or video to our contest to reshape U.S. security policy. Winners will be awarded $1,000 prizes and winning essays will be published in a media outlet or as a New America publication.
Watch our virtual event with our partners at the International Center for Research on Women. A coalition of more than 50 leading humanitarian, foreign policy, and women’s rights groups launched a vision for a feminist foreign policy in the United States.
In honor of Women’s History Month, this policy brief highlights four data trends from the past year that have enhanced our understanding of gender and security, both within the United States and around the world.
Watch our online event on diversity backsliding in the national security community—and what that means for policy outcomes.
Results from an informal survey of international relations and security professors and their students to understand what professors are doing to integrate gender into their courses and what content they consider useful and relevant.
Drawing on roundtable discussions in collaboration with the United States Institute for Peace, this playbook offers six immediate, practical lessons as the U.S. government implements new strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan and considers how best to implement the 2017 Women, Peace and Security Act.
This guide offers essential tools on gender-inclusive policymaking for national security professionals, academics, and journalists.
This study tells the stories of nearly two dozen women with decades of experience in nuclear, arms control, and non-proliferation policy. They have much to teach us, not just about the history of the field but about its future—how to keep it thriving, fill it with vital and innovative talent, and connect it with the best thinking about security, from which it has been too often cut off.
Elena Souris wrote about some of the highlights of the report The “Consensual Straitjacket”: Four Decades of Women in Nuclear Security for Ms. Magazine.
Elena Souris wrote about the findings of our report The “Consensual Straitjacket”: Four Decades of Women in Nuclear Security in the Washington Post, noting that a homogenous group of policymakers make innovation less likely.
This report provides an in-depth look and analysis into policymakers’ views on gender inclusivity, awareness of gender theory, the inclusive security agenda and gender-differentiated data, and perceptions of the role of gender in national security policy processes and outcomes.
Carolina Marques de Mesquita analyzed how women in conflict zones are covered in major media publications in the New America Weekly.
We collaborated with New America’s Better Life Lab to combine our experience in national security policy, gender theory, and cross-sectoral collaboration to look at whether and how inclusivity is shaping American national security policy.
Camille Stewart is an attorney whose crosscutting perspective on complex technology, cyber, and national security, and foreign policy issues has landed her in significant roles at leading government and private sector companies like the Department of Homeland Security and Google. Camille is Head of Security Policy for Google Play and Android where she leads cybersecurity, privacy, election integrity, and misinformation policy efforts.
Jeannette Gaudry Haynie, PhD, is a career Marine Corps officer with a PhD in International Relations. Her academic research focuses on the intersections of gender, leadership, and security, and she has advised senior leadership on critical and creative thinking for warfighting effectiveness, served as a subject matter expert on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, and developed the planning guidance for strategic talent management for warfighting effectiveness.