Audrey Tomason

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Audrey Tomason
Director for Counterterrorism
PresidentBarack Obama

Audrey Tomason is the current Director for Counterterrorism for the National Security Council.[1] She was among a small group of people in the White House on May 2, 2011 who monitored updates of Operation Neptune Spear that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. She appears in a photograph taken in the White House Situation Room during the operation.

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Situation room photo: Tomason is shown at the back of the room

Education

She graduated from Tufts University in 1999[2] participating in the "Tufts Institute for Global Leadership"[3][4] and regularly donates to the "Tufts Fund for Arts, Sciences and Engineering."[5][6] She then went on to get a master's degree, 2003, in public policy program from the The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Early career

She worked as Americorps*VISTA and Associate at ACCION International after Tufts.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Who is Audrey Tomason? The mystery of the woman in the situation room photo". The Daily Mail. May 5, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  2. ^ "Tufts Alumni Magazine Spring 2008" (Spring 2008)
  3. ^ "Tufts Institute for Global Leadership Annual Report" (2005-2006)
  4. ^ http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/80140-1"CSPAN video of 1997 IGL event; Tomason introduces the speaker"
  5. ^ "Tufts Fund for Arts, Sciences and Engineering Annual Report" (2008)
  6. ^ "Tufts Fund for Arts, Sciences and Engineering Annual Report" (2009)
  7. ^ "EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship - 1997 event page)". The Institute for Global leadership. May 5, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2011.