Our Leadership

Jennifer brings a career of high impact organizational management in transitional countries to her leadership role at Swordfish.  With expertise in broadcast media and messaging globally, she guides teams to reach critical audiences with strategic communications and targeted narratives.

Jennifer holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and has additional education in journalism from Moscow State University in the Russian Federation.  She is proficient in Russian.

William has been a leader in multilateral organizations, the United States Government, and implementing agencies internationally.  He is a subject matter expert on human security and transnational threats, focused on the causes and responses to violent extremist mobilization, malign actor influence, conflict, fragility, and fragmentation in developing countries. 

William holds a Ph.D. in international affairs, having completed his graduate studies at the University of Maine and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  William serves on the faculty of the School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine.