Maggie Tennis

Tennis is a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of Strategic Stability and Deterrence Affairs in the Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability at the U.S. Department of State, where she works on the Indo-Pacific deterrence portfolio and next steps in U.S.-Russia arms control. In 2023, she completed details to U.S. Embassy Seoul working on US-ROK extended deterrence and the U.S. Mission NATO working on arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation policy initiatives with NATO Allies. Before joining the State Department, Maggie was a policy advisor at the Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Prior to graduate school, Maggie worked as a Senior Research Assistant for former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott at the Brookings Institution. She was also a Class of 2018 CSIS PONI Nuclear
Scholar.