Amy Cowley is a program assistant in the Forward Defense program of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.  

Previously, Cowley worked at Women In International Security as a gender and global security program assistant, contributing to work on the gendered impacts of conflict. As a graduate student, she studied conflict and conflict resolution, focusing on the drivers of conflict, transitional justice, stabilization, and peacebuilding. She completed a study abroad at the American University in Cairo, and her final capstone project studied post-conflict peacebuilding and community reconciliation in North Africa after the Arab Spring. 

She received a master’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Utah State University.