A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Alissa Starzak

On March 1, 2021, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed Alissa Starzak, Head of Public Policy at Cloudflare, our fourth speaker of the 2020-2021 season of A Road Less Traveled.

Speaker Bio

Alissa Starzak is the Head of Policy at Cloudflare, a web security and optimization company. Prior to joining Cloudflare, Starzak worked for the U.S government in a variety of national security positions, including serving as General Counsel of the U.S. Army, Deputy General Counsel (Legislation) at the Department of Defense, counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and assistant general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency. She also worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., and clerked for The Honorable E. Grady Jolly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She graduated from Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.