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As a Client Executive at James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA) fourteen state Western Regional Office, Ms. Andersen's key responsibilities include exercise development, design and evaluation; research and writing; business development; and client outreach. She works closely with government agencies, schools and universities, and private corporations in the areas of emergency preparedness and crisis management.
Prior to joining JLWA, Ms. Andersen worked at the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), an organization dedicated to interdisciplinary teaching, research, and public services directed at important national and global problems of security and terrorism. While at the Institute, Ms. Andersen was responsible for a variety of administrative and research-related tasks and was engaged in every aspect of the organization including developing a new applied learning course on the perspectives of terrorism, organizing conferences, corresponding with federal, state and local government officials, and applying for research grants. In this position, Ms. Andersen was also able to conduct research and write on a wide variety of domestic policy related issues including a paper that was electronically published titled the "Congressional Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security."
Ms. Andersen also worked for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan government agency that was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad.
Ms. Andersen recently graduated from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University where she received her Master's in Public Administration with a concentration in International and National Security Policy. She is also one of the first recipients of the Certificate of Advanced Study in Security Studies.
During her graduate program, Ms. Andersen and several other students completed a comprehensive report for the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Minority Staff as part of their capstone coursework. The report, titled "Are We Ready?: A Practical Examination of the Strategic National Stockpile in Response to Public Health Crises," was released to the public before a hearing sponsored by the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology in July 2006.
Ms. Andersen received her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science with a minor in Public Communications Studies from Syracuse University in 2002. | 