Amy K. Mitchell is a founding partner at Kilo Alpha Strategies. She brings extensive national security and defense experience to the firm having advised three Secretaries of Defense and several large defense contractors. Her unique understanding of U.S. national security and foreign policy interests provides companies with high-level insights and counsel.

Previously, Ms. Mitchell served as the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the State Department, where she advised the Department’s senior leadership on strategic diplomatic initiatives, including the implementation of the U.S. Women, Peace, and Security agenda and women’s economic empowerment, specifically in the Indo-Pacific region. She represented the office in interagency policy processes, bilateral and multilateral diplomatic engagements, and drove implementation of key policy decisions on China, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and other priority contexts. A member of the Senior Executive Service, she was the Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. She advised the Secretary on public diplomacy and advanced the Department’s critical mission by forging international partnerships and oversaw all high-level engagements and events. She was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal for her service, the Department’s highest civilian honor.

Ms. Mitchell also has extensive Capitol Hill and public relations experience creating and executing a variety of public facing campaigns to inform veteran and military communities, as well as the public, including as the vice president of communications at National Review; vice president of public affairs at the United Service Organizations (USO); and as the director of communications at the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Under President George W. Bush, she served at the Department of Defense as the Director of Special Projects, overseeing the Department’s Wounded Warrior outreach efforts and supported the unveiling of the September 11 Pentagon Memorial. Ms. Mitchell’s international relations career began as the deputy director of public relations at the G8 Summit in 2004 in Sea Island, Georgia. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Ms. Mitchell is currently a Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute, a NonResident Senior Fellow at New Lines Institute; serves on the advisory board of the Vandenberg Coalition; a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Foreign Policy Study Group; a strategic consultant to military and veterans service organizations; and is on the board of Eagle Online Academy. She has appeared on Voice of America and Scripps News, and she has written numerous articles for The National Interest, Foreign Policy and The Hill among other publications.

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