About me.

Maggie Feldman-Piltch is an Information War Mage and Harasser of Authoritarians. She runs a media startup (Unicorn Strategies) with content focused on making national security make sense particularly for millennial and cusper women and undermining authoritarianism. Maggie is an Advisor for Washington Office and the National Security Fellow for the Wilson Center’s Science, Technology and Innovation Program (STIP).

She is also the Founder of #NatSecGirlSquad, a professional development community committed to competent diversity in national security and defense. Maggie has worked with the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and Treasury and across federal law enforcement and the intelligence community.

She is a Guest Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School and National War College among other institutions, completed a year-long fellowship at Joint Special Operations University in the Creative Problem Solving and Innovative Statecraft Department, and regularly participates at Munich Security Conference. She is also formerly a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Security and Strategy.

In addition to her own platforms with an audience of 250,000 people and growing, Maggie’s analysis and contributions appear on CNBC, NPR, PBS, Sinclair Media and around the world on NOVA and CNN International and in Teen Vogue, Forbes, Foreign Policy, and Latin American Advisor. She is an exceedingly proud graduate of Wesleyan University (BA, Honors)  and Georgetown’s Security Studies Program (MA, Centennial Junior Fellow, Dean’s Merit Award).

You can read her regular writing here.