Winnona Bernsen

Winnona DeSombre Bernsen is an MPP/JD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and Georgetown Law, and a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. She was formerly an RE / security engineer at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, tracking targeted threats against Google users, and is the founder of offensive security conference DistrictCon, held in Washington DC. In recent years, Winnona has organized policy content at DEF CON and authored multiple pieces on offensive cyber capability proliferation.