DATES: Thursday, March 7, 2013
TIME(S): 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
LOCATION: CJ Callaway's Event Center (69th & Minnesota), Sioux Falls
TICKET INFO: Reserved tickets are $20 and include lunch. Tickets at the door are $25. Tickets are available through augietickets.com.
Dr. Jarret Brachman, class of 2000, is an internationally recognized counterterrorism
specialist, author and public lecturer. In 2003, while completing his
Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, he served as a Graduate Fellow at
the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center. In 2004, Brachman joined the
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Brachman became the CTC’s
first Director of Research and oversaw the Center's research projects on
al-Qaida ideology and strategy. In 2008, Brachman left the West Point
CTC to launch a new security research and training center in his
hometown of Fargo, N.D. In addition to serving on the faculty at North
Dakota State University, Brachman conducts private consulting on
terrorism for clients both inside and outside of government. Brachman
published his first book, Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice
in 2008. He has testified multiple times before Congressional
subcommittees and the British House of Lords. Brachman routinely
keynotes government counterterrorism conferences and is regularly
featured across international media outlets including, NPR, CNN, the AP,
the Washington Post and the New York Times. |