Speaker Profile
鈥淐ynthia鈥檚 research is exactly the sort of hopeful and ground breaking work that is needed to help see the way forward in these troubling times. At a time where citizens are looking for strategies to help understand the world around them, I cannot recommend Cynthia enough: she is a first-class academic and speaker that had our audience hanging on her every word.鈥濃�擩ohn Adams Institute, Amsterdam
鈥淲e were absolutely thrilled to have Dr. Miller-Idriss join [our conference]. Many of our executives at CASIS have been following her work and loved having the opportunity to hear her present and ask questions. It was a real treat!鈥濃�擟anadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, Vancouver
Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an award-winning author and scholar of extremism and radicalization. She is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education. She regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress or briefs policy, security, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S., the United Nations, and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement.
Miller-Idriss is the author of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right and Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. She is an opinion columnist for MSNBC and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Politico, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and . Cynthia appears regularly in the media as an expert source and political commentator, including regular appearances on as well as other news programs, PBS News Hour, NPR’s and , MSNBC’s , NBC’s , C-SPAN’s , NBC’s ABC’s , CBS鈥� Morning Show, and in global news outlets in over a dozen countries, including BBC News, Deutsche Welle, France 24, and al Jazeera.
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