Tammy Palacios

Tammy Palacios formerly led the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at New Lines Institute. She was a 2023-2024 Research Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point and sits on the Steering Committee for the Harvard Humanitarian Atrocity Prevention Lab. Palacios served as Project Lead for the MENA Research Team at TTCSP, where she managed two international teams collecting data on think tanks and civil society organizations in the MENA region. She also spent time on the Syria and ISIS portfolios at the Institute for the Study of War, where she focused on Salafi-Jihadist militant groups operating in Syria. She has received accreditations for her business and team management roles and enjoys motivating others.  

Palacios earned a master’s degree in security and terrorism studies from the University of Maryland Graduate School. She previously earned a graduate certificate in terrorism analysis from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in international studies and politics and government from the University of Hartford.