Juliette Kayyem
| Juliette Kayyem | |
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Kayyem at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School, March 2014
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| Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Homeland Security | |
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In office 2009–2010 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Stephanie Tennyson |
| Preceded by | Anne Petera |
| Succeeded by | Betsy Markey |
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August 16, 1969 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | David Barron |
| Children | 1 daughter 2 sons |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Juliette N. Kayyem (born August 16, 1969) is an American author and host of the WGBH podcast The SCIF. She serves as a national security analyst for CNN and is a weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a member of Secretary Jeh Johnson’s Homeland Security Advisory Committee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and a former Boston Globe columnist, writing about issues of national security and foreign affairs for the op-ed page.
Formerly, Kayyem was the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Homeland Security. Kayyem has an extensive background in terrorism and national security affairs. Prior to her federal position, she served as Massachusetts' first Undersecretary for Homeland Security, where she was responsible for developing statewide policy on homeland security, with a focus on preventing, protecting, responding to, and recovering from any and all critical incidents.
Her memoir, Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Your Home and Our Homeland, was published by Simon and Schuster on April 5th, 2016.
Born in Los Angeles to Lebanese parents, Kayyem graduated from Harvard University with her Bachelor's degree in 1991 and later from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1995.
A lawyer by training, she began her legal career in 1995 at the Department of Justice, ultimately serving as an advisor to then Attorney General Janet Reno until 1999.
From 1999-2000, Kayyem served as former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt's appointee to the National Commission on Terrorism, a Congressionally mandated review of how the government could better prepare for the growing terrorist threat. Chaired by L. Paul Bremer, that Commission's recommendations in the year 2000 urged the nation to recognize and adapt to the growing tide of terrorist activity against the United States.
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