experience

editing

Senior research editor
RAND Corporation, February 2005–May 2026

Edited publicly available and not publicly available completed deliverables: monographs, technical reports, research reports, and white papers; briefs; occasional papers and perspectives; testimony; tools; and visualizations. Was promoted from research editor to senior research editor in March 2019. Served as the division editor for the RAND Homeland Security Research Division. Also supported the other RAND divisions: the RAND Army Research Division; RAND Education, Employment, and Infrastructure; RAND Global and Emerging Risks; RAND Health; the RAND National Security Research Division; and RAND Project AIR FORCE.

Publicly available pieces I edited recently address such diverse topics as evaluating algorithmic bias; school safety, the fear of school violence, and active-shooter drills in schools; public criminal defense; energy infrastructure capacity and potential capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers; space governance through the lens of social-network analysis; U.S. Air Force assignment durations, culture, and intelligence career development; bankruptcy and mass torts; artificial general intelligence and national security; instruction in public schools on the Holocaust, genocide, antisemitism, and Jewish life; AI governance; technology in wildfire management; time needed for surgical procedures; Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance claims during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis; export controls on AI and uncrewed aircraft systems; civilian hiring in the Department of the Air Force; space assets and counterspace capabilities of China, Russia, and the United States; gray zones and coast guards; election trust and technology; and the effects that high-altitude explosions have on nonmilitary satellites.