Cyber Policy Studies Administrative Assistant
Ms. Debra Schenaker has supported Cyber Policy Studies for eight years as an office manager. She is an administrative assistant with more than 10 years of experience at Mason’s Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications Computing, Cyber and Intelligence (C5I). She
has also been a Purchasing Administrator in the Civil Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering Department for over five years. She has supported Professor Itamara Lochard as Director of Cyber Policy Studies at Mason on two NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) grants, a U.S. Office of Naval Research grant, a NATO Information Environment Assessment contract at CARE, as well as the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense Minerva Initiative in the CEC Dean’s Office. In these capacities, she was responsible for onboarding personnel, purchasing all office equipment, addressing computer software issues, managing payroll, addressing international fellows and tracking registrations and overseas conference attendance. Ms Schenaker is also a U.S. Air Force Veteran, having served as an aircraft maintenance officer (F-15 Eagle, B-52 Stratofortress and KC-10 Tankers).