Program Manager & Senior Analyst
Resume:
EDUCATION
Tammy Lynn Palacios
PROGRAM MANAGER
CONTACT
Washington D.C., NY, MA, CT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/palaciosintl/
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
NATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND RESPONSES TO TERRORISM (START)
Master’s in Terrorism & Security Studies
Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
Bachelor’s in International Studies and Politics
& Government
WORK EXPERIENCE
PROFILE
Solution-driven Program Manager leveraging research along with policy and practitioner engagement across levels and sectors to produce leading work in international security and foreign policy. Senior Analyst of international security, geopolitics, and counterterrorism intent on better connecting research, strategy, and implementation to contribute to progress. Founder of the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism model, a scalable methodology and model that drives timely conflict analysis and policy recommendations that build from existing policies in respect of that landscape’s realities. Always incorporating or at least considering my business development and sales experience to drive lasting and sustainable progress. Serving on the Harvard Humanitarian Atrocity Prevention Lab Steering Committee. Fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism, Locally-Led Peacebuilding, Global Fragility Act Coalition, Prevention and Protection, and the DC Nigeria working groups, as well as the Prevention Practitioners and TRUST networks. Briefed findings at West Point, the Defense Security Cooperation University, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, United Nations Counter- Terrorism Executive Directorate, State Department, Department of Defense, and the Wilson Center among others.
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorism Threat,
START, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Theory & Practice, UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Ambassadorial Studies, WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF WORLD
STUDIES
CERTIFICATIONS
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
CITI Program, A Division of BRANY
Issued May 2021
Atrocity Prevention Lab at Harvard Humanitarian 2024 - PRESENT Steering Committee Member
Member of the APL Steering Committee, a group of experts convened to guide the APL’s community of practice as it serves as a dynamic platform for knowledge exchange, research, and practical interventions.
Member of the funding sub-committee
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Modern War Institute at West Point 2023 - PRESENT
Fellow
Fellows are selected for their impressive accomplishments and strong desire to contribute to improving U.S. military understanding of issues related to modern war. Led working group discussion on Partners and Allies – West Africa. Led working group discussion on Combined Arms Warfare – Counterterrorism, Stabilization Operations, Military Training.
Conducting research on opportunities to capacity match counterterrorism, irregular warfare, and security cooperation objective by leveraging a geospatial analytical approach and joining implementation to better achieve U.S. military strategies in low-policy priority areas of operation.
Co-led panel for culminating Fellowship event Class of 2006 War Studies Conference on the theme of Strategic Surprises held August 5-6 at West Point with. In this conference MWI Fellows and leading experts from both the scholarly & practitioner communities come together to foster a broad, research and practice informed production of a monograph. Wrote a chapter to be published in this monograph through the West Point Press. New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy 2022 - 2025 Senior Analyst & Program Manager
Founded and led the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio that engaged hundreds of experts, practitioners, and policymakers on solution-driven research and policy recommendations to ultimately move the needle on effective and sustainable solutions to insecurity and terrorism. Engaged hundreds of policymakers, practitioners, experts and academics from the local to the international level in an effort to build out the intersection of security and development, proximate localization, and positive prevention to effectively address al Qaeda and ISIS-affilaited terrorism landscapes across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Dkomplex IT 2021
Business Development & Research
Business development consultant who conducted research to support targeted and tested client and partner outreach and acquisition models.
Trained technical communications and software engineer staff twice weekly on communication and sales so they could cross support lead generation. Conducted risk analysis to help define products and services of dKomplex IT's Network Intelligence and Applied Research division.
Conducted marked research, collected and managed data on county officials in NY, VA, DE, MD, TX, and CA.
Tested products and services concepts and models with target audience. Created and implemented an action plan and training materials for Business Development Intern. Managed and trained the intern through the Lean Startup Build-Measure-Learn model to identify target audiences and guide future products and service. PUBLICATIONS
Preventing Another al Qaeda-Affiliated Quasi-State: Countering JNIM’s Strategic Civilian Engagement in the Sahel, New Lines Institute
Supporting CSOs to Mitigate the Spread of Terrorism in the Sahel, New Lines Institute
Fighting Extremism in Nigeria by Strengthening Civil Society, New Lines Institute
Building Bridges with Geospatial Data; an Interview with Tammy Palacios, Atrocity Prevention Lab at Harvard Humanitarian
Coordinated U.S. Foreign Assistance and Effective
Counterterrorism in Africa, Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
Integrating U.S. Military Assistance with Conflict Prevention and Stabilization in the Sahel, New Lines Institute
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Top-Down Disassociation from al- Qaeda in Syria, Terrorism Monitor at Jamestown
Foundation
Can Nigeria’s New Government Address Its Growing
Security Challenges?, The National Interest
Niger: A Longtime Bastion of Stability in West Africa Could Drive Destabilization, New Lines Institute
The Process of Democratic Development in Ghana:
Podcast
Can a Former Al Qaeda Affiliate Stabilize Syria After Assad? Podcast, New Lines Institute
Episode 265 - Why is Africa rife with jihadi groups?, Canadian Intelligence Eh
Think Tanks And Civil Societies Program 2021
MENA Team Project Lead
Led two international teams to research and collect data on over 600 think tanks and civil society organizations across the MENA region published as internal and external work products. Led literature reviews on main challenges and recommendations to MENA think tanks. Bolstered collection on policy areas unique to the MENA region, in addition to the general policy areas TTCSP collected on for think tanks worldwide. Improved data collection practices. This led to the collection on an additional 200 think tanks and civil society organizations.
Launched research on partnerships amongst MENA think tanks. Assigned report segments and tasks based on team member strengths and language capabilities.
Edited the TTCSP 2021 MENA report.
Encouraged team member idea and managed an external work product on the profiles of the top 103 think tanks in the MENA region as a supplement to the comprehensive report. Led presentation preparations and practice for the MENA team to present key data findings to policy and executives of MENA think tanks at the 2021 Symposium. Built and led three projects identified by the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism model as solution areas that address weaknesses in prevention and counterterrorism: Localization, Integrating Security and Development, and Positive Prevention. Managed the research, analysis, and writing of interns, analysts, and non-resident fellows using this methodology and model that balances data-driven mixed methods research and open-source analysis with solutions and recommendations that may drive progress. Briefed policymakers, including at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, U.S. State Dept., USAID, the Hill, DOD, and the Pentagon on counterterrorism recommendations related to the Sahel, Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Iraq and Syria.
Established and led the “Nigerian Civil Society Working Group” and “Kenyan Youth & Civil Society Working Group”, each featuring over 20 local civil society organizations. Mapped over 500 civil society organizations working on youth, women, capacity building and peacebuilding across Africa.
Institute for the Study of War
National Security and Intelligence Analysis Intern 2020
Conducted open-source data collection and analysis on Syria and ISIS Portfolios. Daily workflow consisted of reviewing hundreds of news articles local to Syria in English and Arabic, data collection, data input, analysis of kinetic and political events, flagging events relevant to PIR's and SIR's to senior analysts, and typing up daily briefs and reports on rebel group and military movements and political and economic trends.
Sustainable Counterterrorism: Effectively Countering Terrorism over the next 5-years
European Engagement in the Sahel
Sustainable Security Solutions in West Africa
Listen to Local Actors: Insights from West African NGOs on the side of the Africa Leader’s Summit
Roundtable with Syrian Democratic Council President of the Executive Committee, Elham Ahmad
EVENTS, ROUNDTABLES
HOSTED
PRESENTATIONS
Conflict Lab Research and Advocacy Fellowship:
Closing Session (keynote)
Defense Security Cooperation University Security
Cooperation conference 2024 (panelist)
USMA West Point 2024 Security Seminar “States,
Societies, and Security in the 21st Century” (panelist and member of Irregular Warfare & CT Working Group USMA West Point 2025 Security Seminar (panelists
and member of 2 working groups)
The Changing Nature of Secuity Threats in the
Central Sahel Region: The Rise of Self-Defense
Groups and Private Security Companies (panelist)
The Washington Institute CVE Roundtable hosted by
Matt Levitt (presentation)
The TRUST Network (presentation)
Red Team with Fortune500 company as terrorism
expert
Modern War Institute & Defense Strategic Studies at West Point (panelist at war studies lecture)
Smart Circle International LLC 2013 - 2016
Training Manager
Increased performance and territory viability for sales and marketing on behalf of Fortune 500 clients including, but not limited to Home Depot, the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. Interviewed, hired, trained and managed up to 300 individuals of varying experience levels and ages in sales, leadership and training in CT, LI, NY, SC, VA, NJ, and MO. Worked upwards of 70 to 90hrs a week onsite in this role.
Selected as one of 2 to assist the manager in re-training the North Charleson, SC location in 2013. Moved to SC to hire and build a core team.
Selected as the right-hand to open a new location in Virginia Beach, VA in 2015. Moved to VA to hire and build a core team and sales team for two clients. Awarded the Top Leader award for excellence in leadership, team management, training, and overall performance in 2014 and 2015. The Top Leader award is given in front of hundreds of managers and Trainers at a national conference in Dallas, TX. Recognized in the printed company newsletter for team management, and my team's overall performance. The newsletter highlighted my right-hand Training Manager that I had interviewed, hired, and trained one-on-one.
Recognized in national calls as a Top Training Manager multiple times for my part in an exponential 70% growth in sales and performance.
Developed training materials and held daily meetings to train the core leadership team in training and leadership.
Directed daily in-office and in-the-field trainings conducted by core leadership members, Trained the office in: how to conduct interviews, administrative tasks, team match-ups, etc. Tracked and reported daily and weekly sales production. Held training breakdowns, one-on-one conversations and meetings to maintain positive and forward movement attitude and performance.
Managed and taught territory maps to support sustainability. SKILLS
Solution driven research & analysis
Output driven program planning
Leadership
Multitasking & Prioritization
Effective and efficient engagement
Partnerships
Policy Writing
Cross-sector and cross-level communication
Conducted targeted research dives in Arabic and English for two independent research projects exploring local efforts of al Qaeda affiliated groups in Syria, and deciphering al Qaeda's ecosystem in Greater Idlib Syria. Commended by superiors for in-depth and complete nature of research.
Wrote forecasts on group strategy and relations amongst Salafi-jihadist opposition groups in Northwestern Syria by studying current events and capabilities of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Hurras al-Din and the Turkestan Islamic Party in Greater Idlib, Syria. Teed up information relevant to ongoing ISIS efforts and joint anti-ISIS campaigns at IRQ-SYR border to the ISIS portfolio team.
Wrote daily briefs on significant events; highlighting tactical, operational and strategic posture of local and global actors operating in Syria. Paid special attention to the status of the 05 MAR, 2020 Turkish-Russo ceasefire agreement. Co-author on ISW Syria Situation Report tracking and analyzing Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hurras al-Din, and Turkistan Islamic Party in NW Syria.
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