BIO

Ms. Stephanie Sellers currently serves as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Representative to the U.S. Army War College and the General Walter Bedell Smith
Chair of National Intelligence Studies. Ms. Sellers has twenty-seven years of experience
in the U.S. Government as an intelligence educator; tradecraft facilitator; analytic
manager; military analyst; science and technology analyst; and missile system engineer.
From 2018-2019, Ms. Sellers served as the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) briefer to the
Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Undersecretary of Defense for
Intelligence. Before joining the CIA, Ms. Sellers served as a Department of the Navy
civilian aerospace engineer where she directed program operations, developed
hardware, and conducted thermal-structural stress and flight-dynamic analysis
simulations on reentry of vehicles for the Navy’s Trident submarine launched ballistic
missile system.

Ms. Sellers holds a Bachelor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the
University of Dayton, Master of Science and Professional degrees in Aerospace
Engineering from the George Washington University, a Master of Arts in National
Security and Strategic Studies from the U. S. Naval War College, and a Certificate in
Leadership Coaching for Organizational Development from George Mason University.
She teaches trauma-informed yoga for Veterans Yoga Project, a non-profit organization
whose mission is to support recovery and resilience among veterans, military families,
and communities particularly those working through PTSD and volunteers for the Travis
Manion Foundation whose mission is to empower veterans and families of fallen heroes
to develop character in future generations. She enjoys spending her free time with her
four children (sons, 15 and 13, and daughters, 11 and 8).

Contact

stephanie.sellers.civ@armywarcollege.edu