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Builder. Communicator. Innovator. Fixer.
Maggie Feldman-Piltch makes national security make sense. In addition to her own platforms, her analysis and contributions appear on CNBC, NPR, PBS, Sinclair Media and in Teen Vogue, Forbes, Foreign Policy, and Latin American Advisor. She is passionate about America, building and supporting resilient national security institutions and helping people. Maggie is a Founding Partner at Unicorn Strategies and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Security and Strategy, writing her first book called ‘Non-State Actress,’ (agent: J. Watterson, SDA) due out in 2025.
Maggie is a highly sought-after speaker, lecturer, advisor, and innovator who is always on the hunt for new adventures. Contact her here.
Maggie is a Founding Partner at Unicorn Strategies, a firm building and supporting intentional innovation in national security institutions. US’ work includes Operation Eagle, #NatSecGirlSquad and its accompanying secure teaching and learning platform Herd Mentality, Project VU – a functional human-centered AI program to strengthen and reform the security clearance process, and Kalishnikitty. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Security and Strategy, writing her first book.
Maggie enjoyed a fruitful term as Entrepreneur-in-Residence/Senior Advisor to the Executive at Guidehouse National Security Sector. Prior to Unicorn Strategies, Maggie served in a variety of roles at American Security Project including leading the US-Cuba work, the Women in Security and Business Council for American Security programs, and a weekly podcast.
Maggie is a Participant at the Munich Security Conference, a former Non-Resident Fellow at Joint Special Operations University supporting the Applied Experimentation Lab and Department of Integrated Special Operations, and a previous Aspen Security Forum Fellow (2017). She teaches and speaks regularly on innovative institution building in national security, applied design thinking, and entrepreneurship at Naval Postgraduate School’s Institute for Security Governance, Georgetown Security Studies, and similar programs.
She completed her M.A at Georgetown School of Foreign Service’s Security Studies Program where she earned the Director’s Award and served as a Junior Centennial Fellow. Her contribution to the evacuation and resettlement of American-connected Afghan’s was recognized by President Joseph R. Biden, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinked. She is an exceedingly proud graduate of Wesleyan University, and lives in Washington, D.C. where she maintains a vibrant regular life as an opera singer.