Shawna Sinnott

Chair of the Board of Advisors and Co-Founder

Shawna Sinnott is an active duty Marine Corps Officer who has served in operational, staff, policy, and leadership roles across I Marine Expeditionary Force, Special Operations Command, and Headquarters Marine Corps. Her operational deployments have taken her across Afghanistan, the Arabian Gulf, and East Africa. Shawna holds an AB from Harvard College, an MLitt from the University of St Andrews, and an MA from Stanford University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in political science at Stanford University under the Commandant of the Marine Corps Strategist Program. Shawna is a National Security and Counterterrorism with the McCain Institute and a Graduate Fellow with Stanford University’s Center for American Democracy.