Elizabeth Neumann is Chief Strategy Officer for Moonshot – a social impact
organization, whose work is rooted in the fundamental belief that people can change.
Ms. Neumann oversees Moonshot’s US programs, which support Federal, State, and local governments and community partners to understand and prevent violence. Moonshot’s violence intervention model reaches concerned bystanders and people considering violence online and offers lifesaving services – such as connecting them to established local support services and intervention partners including trained counselors, mentors, and community leaders. The model is operating in several US states and five Canadian provinces.
Ms. Neumann previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and as Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention where she led teams addressing a range of issues including domestic violent extremism, screening and vetting, countering terrorism and transnational criminal organizations, countering hostile UAS (drones), and human trafficking. Ms. Neumann began her homeland security work in the aftermath of 9/11, serving on the inaugural staff of the White House Homeland Security Council.
She is a Board Member of the National Immigration Forum, founder of the Council on National Security and Immigration, and a National Security Contributor at ABC News.
The Eradicating Hate Global Summit was both eye-opening and empowering. To have so many experts in the field of countering hate, all there sharing their expertise, working towards practical and real world solutions, was incredibly unique. It is this focus on meaningful conversations, answers, and solutions that makes Eradicating Hate so incredibly important. The spread of hate is a wicked problem, and the way Eradicating Hate approaches it is how we are going to solve it.
