April 25, 2019

Bombshells and Smart Women Talk Security

RAND’s Radha Iyengar Plumb, CNAS’s Loren DeJonge Schulman (two of the Bombshell podcast hosts), and CSIS’s Alice Hunt Friend discuss mentoring young women (and men) and what it’s like to be leading women in international affairs and national security.

Listen to Loren DeJonge Schulman's full conversation on the CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power podcast:

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