Lena S. Andrews

Lena Andrews is the author of the national bestseller Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II and an Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where she is affiliated with the Department of African American and Africana Studies and the Center for International and Security Studies. A former military analyst at the CIA, Lena has also worked at the RAND Corporation and the United States Institute of Peace. Lena's work has been featured on MSNBC, PBS, CNN, The Washington Post, Today, People, and TIME, among other outlets. Lena is originally from Boston, Massachusetts and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.