Cyndi Levy

Cyndi Levy has taught courses in political science, strategic studies, and public administration at Norwich University, Colorado College, Zrinyi Miklos National Defense University in Budapest, the U.S. National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where she also served as assistant provost for external affairs. 

Her career includes service as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, as an analyst at CIA headquarters in Langley, the Maritime Administration, and as the Executive Assistant to the former Dep Director of the CIA, Dr. Ray Cline, while he was the Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She has also served as a Legislative Aide for Defense and Intelligence for US Senators Orrin Hatch and John Chafee. She received an AB from Syracuse University in Soviet and East European studies and socialist economics, and studied for a MA in law and diplomacy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, specializing in strategic studies and international law. She then studied for her MPA and subsequently pursued a PhD in American government and public administration at the Maxwell School of Public Administration. While assigned by the US Naval Postgraduate School to teach at Zrinyi Miklos National Defense University of the Republic of Hungary, she studied for her PhD in military strategy and philosophy. Along the way, she was awarded an Honorary PhD from Moscow State University in Russia. She is also the owner of Hilton Head Design, an artisan glass company.