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Marisa Porges is the author of What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women. She is the eighth Head of School of The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia, that is renowned for academic excellence and preparing girls to be leaders and changemakers. She is an alumna of Baldwin and personally understands the power of its approach to educating girls: it provided the foundation for her own military service and work on national security and foreign affairs.
Prior to joining Baldwin, Dr. Porges was a leading counterterrorism and national security expert. She served in the Obama White House as a senior policy advisor; as a research fellow studying terrorism at Harvard Kennedy School and at the Council on Foreign Relations; and as a counterterrorism policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Treasury and in the U.S. Department of Defense. In these roles, she traveled throughout the Middle East and Afghanistan to conduct research, interview former members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, meet with Syrian rebel fighters in hiding, and serve as an embedded civilian advisor at NATO military headquarters in Afghanistan. Dr. Porges started her career on active duty in the U.S. Navy, flying jets off carriers as a naval flight officer on EA-6B Prowlers. She stood out in all these roles as one of a few – if not the only – women present, at any given time.
Dr. Porges earned a B.A. in geophysics from Harvard, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in war studies from King’s College London. Her awards include the National Committee on American Foreign Policy 21st Century Leader Award and the NATO Medal for service in Afghanistan. Dr. Porges lives outside of Philadelphia, with her family.
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