Join REC for a unique conversation with former CIA operative and FBI Special Agent Tracy Walder, moderated by REC Vice Chair Rachel Rosner. Tracy will share about her experience as a counterintelligence specialist and how her Judaism impacted her career. She will also discuss the future threat of domestic terrorism and Israel's relationship with the U.S.
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Tracy worked as Staff Operations Officer (SOO), Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center Weapons of Mass Destruction Group and a Special Agent at the FBI. During her time at the CIA, Tracy travelled to war zones and many other countries. Tracy received many awards for her service from both the CIA and from foreign intelligence offices, to include the counterterrorism medal and multiple exceptional performance awards. After the CIA, Tracy became a Special Agent at the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations. Following her time at the CIA and FBI, Tracy enrolled in both a master's and a teaching credential program. She taught history and a self-created course on national security and foreign policy for almost fifteen years. Tracy now works as an author and adjunct professor of Criminal Justice. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Girl Security, a nonpartisan organization increasing the representation of women in national security by building a pipeline for girls and young women through learning, training, and mentoring support. Tracy Walder earned her degree in history from the University of Southern California and her master's in education from Chapman University. She has appeared on NPR, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, BBC, Al Jazeera, Good Morning Texas, and other national broadcasts, and has been published in D Magazine, Salon, New York Post, and HuffPost.
Rachel Rosner is a partner in the Los Angeles Office of Bocarsly Emden Cowan Esmail & Arndt LLP. Her practice focuses on real estate finance with an emphasis on tax-advantaged structures and urban infill development. Rachel is the immediate past President of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing, and she is a Vice Chair and member of the Advisory Council for the Real Estate and Construction Division of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. She has been recognized for helping to establish an affordable housing law clinic and serves as guest lecturer at UCLA Law School and the UCLA Levine Program in Housing and Social Responsibility.
Rachel earned her Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis, where served as Senior Editor of the Washington University Law Review, and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the honors program at the University of Maryland. Rachel lives in Encino with her husband Jesse Gabriel — a member of the California State Assembly — and their sons Ethan, Joshua, and Noah.
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