Unicorn BLUF: Early Spring
The Semi-Monthly Update from Across the Unicorn Strategies Ecosystem
BLUF
The cherry blossoms aren’t the only ones in peak bloom - though ours lasts longer.
reached more than 1.2 million people in the last 13 months, videos have hit the solo social channels. Follow along.The #NatSecGirlSquad Newsletter is back and we’re soft-launching #NatSecGirlSquad Media to publish original analysis and commentary from the Community plus The #NSGPod, among others. The Partners and Members Council is is thriving with more than a dozen members, and spring has *sprung*!
Also, we moved from MailChimp to Substack because it is *way* easier.
Trivia
We thought about doing a Greater Sage Grouse trivia question but decided we’d do a freebie instead… The color purple signifies what DOD concept?
Submit the first right answer and be featured in next month’s newsletter, submit the next trivia question, and get a gift card for a cup of coffee on us!
In the World: Winter Edition
Maggie was thrilled to be back at MSC to celebrate 60 years of international security conversation, and to give out hundreds of stickers…which are much cooler than business cards. She also spent a lot of time on Indonesian and Malaysian television, talking to about 5.6 million women about digital IDs, how to have healthy and impactful national security institutions in healthy and impactful democracies, and MSC happenings.
Seb chatted with Emagine IT’s Jeremy Francese on cybersecurity talent and workforce development for the ‘Emagine the Future’ podcast. Listen here.
Kellee Wicker - Director of the Wilson Center’s Science and Technology Innovation Program, Roberta Braga - Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Amercias and
, now a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, joined Atlantic Council’s International Women’s Day event for a conversation on influence operations - malign and otherwise.The ~50 minute discussion dug into how and why American women are frequent targets of anti-democracy information campaigns and included a pretty spicy warning to those attempting to divide society that we’re on to them 😇.
Did that blurb in the BLUF raise an eyebrow? Find yourself nodding along with the video above?
We want to talk to you. Seriously.
Non-State Actress, Maggie’s multimedia project to make national security make sense, has reached more than 1.2 million unique viewers and readers around the world in the last 13 months!
The project now has its own Instagram AND Snapchat. And *wow* is the Bitmoji spot on:
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#NatSecGirlSquad Media has joined the world of the living, bringing with it podcasts, original analysis and commentary from across the Community, and more. Submission guidelines here, and info session to answer *all* your questions is scheduled for April 29.
#NSGSPod
The valiant return of #NSGPod! This month features New York Times Bestselling Author and #NSGSCon 2024 Golden Hammer Award Winner
for a wide ranging conversation on the presidency and writing about dead men. Catch the episode and .
Partners and Members Council
The Partners and Members Council, #NatSecGirlSquad’s formal mechanism for bringing mission-driven organizations into the Community, is live with over a dozen initial members. Learn more and get involved here.