Tammy Palacios

Tammy Palacios is a Senior Fellow with the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and is a Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point. Tammy sits on the Steering Committee for the Harvard Humanitarian Atrocity Prevention Lab, is a member on working groups including on Locally-led Peacebuilding, Prevention, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, and on Nigeria. Tammy hosts working groups of civil society organizations across Nigeria and Kenya, engaging actors working in and near conflict. 

As the founder of Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism model, Palacios recently led the PSCT portfolio, and before that the Nonstate Actors Program at New Lines Institute. Previously Led the MENA Research Team at Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at UPenn, researched Salafi-Jihadist groups with the Syria and ISIS portfolios at the Institute for the Study of War, and has independently studied effective and sustainable counterterrorism for over a decade. 

Palacios earned an MA in security and terrorism studies and graduate certificate in terrorism analysis from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, and a BA in international studies & politics and government from the University of Hartford.