Amina focuses on racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism in the United States and transnationally. Amina regularly briefs faith-based communities and represents DHS with private sector partners on physical threats to critical infrastructure. Amina joined DHS after a long career in the nonprofit, public and private sectors. Her prior federal service was at the U.S. Department of Energy as a Senior Policy Advisor. Amina attended Georgetown University for both her undergraduate and master’s in law degrees. She attended law school at the Delaware Law School. She lives in McLean, Virginia, with her husband, two children and an array of rescue animals.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
