Lt Col Anderson is a Visiting Scholar and National Defense Fellow at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs. She previously served as Senior Executive Officer to the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance & Cyber Effects Operations and as commander of the 8th Intelligence Squadron. She has deployed numerous times in support of operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa and served as staff officer at Indo-Pacific Command as well as U.S. Air Force Headquarters at the Pentagon. She received a B.A in Political Science & International Relations from Syracuse University and Masters degrees in Public Policy from New England College, Military Operational Art and Science from the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College, and Military Strategy from the Air Force’s flagship strategy school, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.