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The Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS) is a group of national security professionals dedicated to increasing the leadership of women in national security. LCWINS calls on all 2020 presidential candidates to pledge that they will make gender parity a top priority for their national security appointments should they be elected President.
Keeping our nation safe and furthering American interests abroad are sacred Presidential duties. To advance these goals, America needs the best possible team of professionals.
Research shows that diverse teams are stronger and more effective: they are more creative and innovative and more likely to avoid dangerous “groupthink.” Yet women, especially women of color, are woefully underrepresented in senior positions in national security and foreign policy.
This lack of gender parity is due not to a lack of exceptional female candidates but to a lack of intentional, committed leadership.
Gender diversity is both an issue of fundamental fairness and, critically, necessary to strengthen the performance of our national security institutions. We need bold leadership to address this imbalance.
For these reasons, we call upon all 2020 candidates for President of the United States to make a public pledge that, if they become President, they will strive for gender parity in senior national security and foreign policy appointments.
We encourage the next President to nominate women to senior positions in national security that have never been filled by women before, and to ensure that women of color are well represented in senior ranks. The goal should be senior leadership teams that are as diverse as America itself.
This means:
Presidential campaigns can demonstrate their commitment to these ideals now by choosing senior advisors who reflect America’s diversity.
The Leadership Council for Women in National Security stands ready to work with campaigns and transition teams to develop effective recruiting, screening and hiring processes and identify highly qualified candidates for every national security position.
America is strongest when it draws on the talent of all its citizens.
Members of the national security community who have joined our call for gender parity:
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
Dax Abrams
Courtney Adante
Maureen Ahmed
Andrew Albertson
Paige Alexander
Treva Alexander
Lissette Almodovar-Kline
Lisa Amabile
Diane Marie Amann
Sanam B Naraghi Anderlini
Wendy R. Anderson
Virginia Antonio
Jocelyn Aqua
Anthony Clark Arend
Chris Armstrong
Kishla Askins
Tom Atkin
Caroline Atkinson
Trina Aurin
Kirstin Avery
Georgia Baker
Margaret Barber
Shirley Elizabeth Barnes
Amy Barrett
Hannah Barrett
Leslie Bassett
Denise Campbell Bauer
Lionel Beehner
Colleen Bell
John Bellinger
Jenna Ben-Yehuda
Allison Benjamin
Nora Bensahel
Max Bergmann
Seth Binder
Tony Blinken
Tatyana Bolton
John Bordeaux
Brianda Boykin
Sharon Brackett
Aurelia E. Brazeal
Reuben Brigety
Erin Bromaghim
Rosa Brooks
Gabriela Brown
Shannon Bryan
Lauren Buitta
Prudence Bushnell
Piper Campbell
Emma Campbell-Mohn
Julia Canney
Asha Castleberry
Elisa Catalano Ewers
Judith B. Cefkin
Rebecca Bill Chavez
Jon Cheatwood
Derek Chollet
David S. Cohen
Hilary Cohen
Joseph J. Collins
Anne Connell
Maura Connelly
Lauren Conroy
Elinor Constable
Erin Cooper
Mary-Gardner Coppola
Cindy Courville
Bathsheba Crocker
Meghann Curtis
Melissa Dalton
Janine Davidson
Kent Davis
Brionne Dawson
Maria Dayton
Elizabeth M. Dent
Alexandra DeMayo
Mary DeRosa
Laura Dickinson
Megan Doherty
Tanya Domi
Eileen Donahoe
Laura Donohue
Daniel Drezner
Mackenzie Eaglen
Katie Enos
Mieke Eoyang
Rosalba Esparragoza
Kathie Ewers
Ariel Fanger
Evelyn Farkas
Sarah Farnsworth
Sita Farrel
Maggie Feldman-Piltch
Jon Finer
Gina Fiore
Edward Fishman
Michele Flournoy
Price Floyd
Sandra Floyd
Kirsten Fontenrose
Joanna Freudenheim
Michael Fuchs
Sue Gainor
Kathy Gallardo
Jana Chapman Gates
Beth George
Ilan Goldenberg
Jake Goodman
Charlotte Gorman
Amy Green
Dr. Jerrold D. Green
Karen J. Greenberg
Solita Greene
Leslie Gross
George Grossman
Alexander Guittard
Kat Haber
Nina Hachigian
Pamela Hamamoto
Muhammad Hanif Gul
Oona Hathaway
Caroline Heldman
Sara Helfer
Kath Hicks
Laura Holgate
Michael Horowitz
Vince Houghton
Heather Hurlburt
Rose Jackson
Tracey Ann Jacobson
Susanne E. Jalbert
Crystal James
Natalie Jaresko
Bonnie Jenkins
Kathryn Jensen
Derek Johnson
M. Tia Johnson
Ana Jones
Lauren Jones
Margaret Jones
Connor Joseph Wangler
Carrie Kagawa
Alexandra Kahan
Kim Kahnhauser Freeman
Jonathan Kaplan
Bozkurt Karaoglan
Mara Karlin
Whitney Kassel
Juliette Kayyem
Chimene Keitner
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Laura Kennedy
Haneen Khalid
Humera Khan
Shehzi Khan
Laura Khor
Beverly Kirk
Kati Koster
Brodi Kotila
Maureen Kovchok
Lisa Kubiske
Andrew Lakritz
Deborah Landau
Gentry Lane
Daniela Lanigan
Jessica Lee
Gabriela Lemus
Roxanne Leo
Claire Leon
Dawn Liberi
Carmen Lomellin
Kelly Magsamen
Nasreen Maiwandi
Tom Malinowski
Eileen A. Malloy
Shaila Manyam
Susan Markham
Elisa Massimino
Dennise Mathieu
Anja Mauel
Isabel Maxwell
Stacey May
Mary McCord
Nancy McEldowney
Michael McFaul
Jenna McLaughlin
Theo Milonopoulos
Nicole Misita
Amanda Molina
Amanda Moodie
Colleen Moore
Jonathan Morgenstein
Jamie Morin
Patti Morrissey
Larissa Moseley
Cas Mudde
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Katherine Munchmeyer
Anthony Musa
Crystal Nix-Hines
Suzanne Nossel
Jim O'Brien
Gigi O'Connell
Maura O'Neill
Aurora Ortega
Jung Pak
Won Palisoul
Ankit Panda
Nancy Parrish
Nutan Patel
June Carter Perry
Allison Peters
Larry Pfeiffer
Annie Pforzheimer
Corinne Pina
Savilla Pitt
Joan Plaisted
Valerie Plame
John Podesta
Eric G. Postel
Brad Potter
Marsha Power
Om Prakash
Jeffrey Prescott
Charlotte Putney
Mary E. Quinn
James Raimondo
Lauren Rajczak
Charlene Rallo
Robin L. Raphel
Nick Rasmussen
Laura Reed
Dan Restrepo
Ben Rhodes
Brenan Richards
Lindsay Rodman
Elizabeth Rosen
Laura Rosenberger
David Rothkopf
Edna Z. Ruano
Dakota Rudesill
Josh Rudolph
Pat Ryan
Algene Sajery
Janet Sanderson
Julia Santucci
Kim Savit
Kori Schake
Bob Scher
Loren Schulman
David Schwartz
Deepa Shah
Rina Shah
Daniel Shapiro
Derek Shearer
Josette Sheeran
David Shorr
Djaouida Siaci
Dilpreet Sidhu
Sarah Sieloff
Erin Simpson
Melanie W. Sisson
Dana Shell Smith
Julie Smith
Michelle Smith
Mireya Solis
Zoe Spiropoulou
Zoe Stanley-Lockman
Brooke Stedman
Shelly Stoneman
Jane Stromseth
Jake Sullivan
Mona Sutphen
Marjorie Tabak
Elena Taeyaerts
Jacqueline Tame
Rachel Tecott
Julia Tedesco
Caroline Tess
Jorhena Thomas
Linda Thomas-Greenfield
James Todhunter
Maile Torres
Victoria Travis
George Trowbridge
Jaclyn Urso
Jordan Valdes
Richard Verma
Melanne Verveer
Rachel Vogelstein
David Wade
Alex Wagner
Marcelle M. Wahba
Nancy J. Walker
Jacquelyne Weatherspoon
Emily Weinstein
Jessica Chen Weiss
Anna Wheeler
Bisa Williams
Doug Wilson
Anne Witkowsky
Tamara Cofman Wittes
Christine Wormuth
Katherine Wright
William Wu
Mary Carlin Yates
Sarah Yerkes
Ahmed Younis
Emma Yourd
Vera Zakem
Jane Zimmerman
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