Academic Incubator Program
Enroll Your University in the Academic Incubator
The Cipher Brief’s Academic Incubator Program partners with national security and cyber programs from some of the country’s leading colleges and Universities to highlight the work of their top-performing students for The Cipher Brief audience which consists of nearly 30K daily newsletter subscribers with deep experience in the government and private sectors.
There is no cost for enrollment in the program and partner Universities receive:
- Free first year annual subscription to The Cipher Brief for actively enrolled students which includes full access to The Cipher Brief archives (subscription eligibility must be verified by the University).
- The opportunity for 2-3 pieces written by students to be published each semester (pieces are selected and edited by the University), The Cipher Brief will make all final publication decisions.
- The opportunity for students to participate in The Academic Incubator National Security Summit, to be held virtually in June 2021 featuring national security experts and others who have recently navigated from the academic environment to jobs in the national security sector.
- Promotion of the University’s program in The Cipher Brief newsletter (circulation 30K) for two days each semester.
University Partners agree to:
- Designate a staff member or qualified graduate student to serve as the program administrator, who will be responsible for overseeing the partnership program. The designee will be responsible for managing the free student membership eligibility and disbursement and will be responsible for selecting, editing and submitting 2-3 pieces per semester written by students or faculty for publication consideration per Cipher Brief guidelines.
Give your students the kind of advantage that only The Cipher Brief can offer. Apply Today.
“..[T]he ISS program’s partnership with The Cipher Brief has given our students access to leading voices in national security and provided an invaluable opportunity for the students to develop skills that will allow them to contribute to national security after they graduate.” – Timothy Russell, Director of the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Mississippi
Please complete this form for an application.
The Staff
Suzanne Kelly
CEO and Publisher
Suzanne Kelly is CEO & Publisher of The Cipher Brief and most recently served as CNN`s Intelligence Correspondent before spending two years in the private sector. She also worked as an Executive Producer for CNN and as a news anchor at CNN International based in Berlin and Atlanta. In Berlin, she anchored a morning news program that was broadcast live in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and from Atlanta, she anchored a number of world news programs. She covered the NATO campaign in 1999 from Kosovo and Macedonia.
Brad Christian
Vice President Operations
Brad Christian is Vice President of Operations at The Cipher Brief. Prior to joining TCB he spent over a decade in the private sector. He has executive leadership experience in operations management, sales, training and business development. Previously he served in numerous overseas posts providing critical support to USG operations as a member of an elite protective unit. Prior to entering the private sector, he served for 10 years in the US Military including service with the Rangers and Special Forces. He is a graduate of Georgia State University.
Kim Dozier
Executive Editor
Kim Dozier is the Executive Editor of The Cipher Brief, and a CNN Global Affairs Analyst. She has covered intelligence and national security for The Associated Press and The Daily Beast, after 17 years as an award-winning CBS News foreign and national security correspondent.
She held the 2014-2015 Gen. Omar Bradley Chair at the United States Army War College. A graduate of Wellesley College and UVA, she is a recipient of the Peabody Award, Edward R. Murrow Awards, and she was the first woman journalist recognized by the National Medal of Honor Society for her coverage of Iraq.
She authored Breathing the Fire, about a devastating car bomb that hit a U.S. Army patrol and her CBS News team in Baghdad, Iraq in 2006.
Walter Pincus
Columnist
Walter Pincus is a Columnist and the Senior National Security Reporter at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also won an Emmy in 1981 and the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy.
Bennett Seftel
Director of Analysis
Bennett Seftel is the Director of Analysis at The Cipher Brief. He previously worked for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Bennett received his BA in Arabic Language and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and his MA in International Law and Global Security from Georgetown University.
Levi Maxey
Cyber and Technology Analyst
Levi Maxey is the Cyber and Technology Analyst at The Cipher Brief. He previously worked at the Stimson Center`s Managing Across Boundaries initiative in Washington D.C. as well as the Global Governance Institute`s Peace and Security Section in Brussels. Levi holds a Masters Degree from the Department of War Studies at Kings College London, focusing on international security in the digital age. He received a B.A. in International Studies from Roosevelt University in Chicago and studied European Peace and Security at Vesalius College in Brussels.
Brian Garrett-Glaser
Content Manager
Brian Garrett-Glaser is the Content Manager at The Cipher Brief. Prior to joining the company, he worked as a Public Affairs Specialist at Schatz Publishing and received a B.A. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
Rogan Richer
Events and Marketing Coordinator
Rogan Richer is the Event and Marketing Coordinator for The Cipher Brief. Prior to joining The Cipher Brief, he worked in an administrative role at an outpatient mental health facility as well as a business development associate at a Maryland based hazardous protection company. Rogan is an Old Dominion University graduate and received a B.A in Political Science concentrating in Terrorism and Counterterrorism with a minor in Military Leadership. Rogan was born in Amman, Jordan.
