Greater Middlesbrough and Stockton Area
Since 2001 I have been researching the United Kingdom's internal national security model with my focus being Counter Terrorism Police and MI5. My unsolicited research findings are regularly submitted to the the UK government. For more than two decades of research, it has been my intention to produce a body of work in the form of an academic paper for the United Kingdom, The working title for my ongoing research project is, Institutional Memory, and Experiential Learning: Functionality, Adaptability, Resilience and the United Kingdom’s Internal National Security Model (Strategy), as led by MI5 (the Security Service) and Counter Terrorism Policing. My additional research interests include the analysis of the formation of 'militarized' narratives that fuel the performance of a weaponized self (identity). Based in Chicago, in the 1980’s I began my activist career in London's feminist third sector, whilst also maintaining a demanding business career in Chicago as an accountant and at times a Human Resources executive. I remained fully engaged with several London women’s NGO’s over a nearly forty year period traveling to London three to four times a year. The outcome being, garnering a nuanced understanding of the relational dynamics between the UK’s internal national security model and some UK NGO’s. I am a published writer. My work has appeared in American, British and Australian publications. I have a podcast on YouTube where I analyze the United Kingdom's internal national security models. In 2012 I expanded my scope to include the internal national security models of Canada (Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and Israel (the Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces). Originally from the United States, the United Kingdom is now home. I have also lived in Ireland, Canada and Israel. I am a survivor of ‘the Troubles’, which has augmented my analytical understanding of protracted conflicts and the response from the State through experiential learning. Based in the United Kingdom since 2018, I have recently started a business, facilitating resilience and adaptive thinking in businesses best described as in perpetual motion going from project to project. If this is of interest to you, please see my contact information below: Website: www.itisyourstory.co.uk Email: [email protected]
The analysis of the organizational resilience and experiential thinking.
I analyze internal National Security models from a bottom-up perspective. It is my goal to garner a thorough understanding of how internal national security models are experienced, with a particular focus on marginalized communities. Then I seek to understand the experiential learning of national security practitioners. The working title of the paper is, Experiential Learning: Functionality, Adaptability, Resilience and the United Kingdom’s Internal National Security Model. Research Fellow at University of Manitoba - Centre for Defense and Security Studies
In multi ethnic, multi religious, queer friendly and militarized Haifa, Israel, preliminary research on how diverse identities interact and experience the state’s internal national security model.
For over twenty years whilst maintaining a business career in the USA, I have simultaneously worked in London, England on a volunteer basis with a myriad of women’s organizations. •Women Worldwide Advancing Freedom and Equality (WWAFE) – US Foreign Correspondent writing articles that serve as a comparative analysis of women’s activism in the UK and USA. •Older Feminist Network (OFN) – acting as a liaison to network with ethnic and Muslim women. •Feminist Library – worked several projects including cataloguing, fundraising and research. The research project involved responding to correspondence on services available at library and in some cases assisting patrons with research. •Feminist Audio Book – streamlined computerized database to more efficiently track location of videos on loan.
Part of a focus group for an NGO company, analyzing the presentation of a marginalized community in their programming. This was a volunteer project.