Dr. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie

Jeannette Gaudry Haynie, PhD, is a career Marine Corps officer and combat veteran. A New Orleans native and a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, she is a Cobra attack helicopter pilot by trade. She earned her Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of New Orleans and her PhD in International Relations from The George Washington University while serving on the Joint Staff and in the Marine Corps Commandant’s think tank. Jeannette’s academic research focuses on the intersections of people, culture, leadership, and security, to include the U.S. military, and her operational experiences and academic work are deeply connected.

As a Reservist and on Active Duty, she advised senior leadership on critical and creative thinking for warfighting effectiveness, and served as a subject matter expert on talent management and the Women, Peace, and Security agenda; in these roles, she led creation of frameworks for talent management and learning for warfighting effectiveness. She simultaneously conducted independent and original research for the Commandant and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Dr. Haynie has taught courses in Gender and Conflict and International Relations at The George Washington University and Quantitative Methods of Disaster Resilience at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. She served as Senior Fellow and later codirector of nonprofit Women In International Security, where she conducted research into the gender dimensions of various security phenomena, including terrorism and extremism.

Dr. Haynie is a member of the Presidential Leadership Scholars’ Class of 2019, where the roots of the Athena Leadership Project were planted. She is Founder and Executive Director of Athena, which seeks to elevate and connect stories and research relevant to diversity, human security, and security and war more broadly to inform how we understand these phenomena. With a group of fellow Naval Academy graduates, she founded the Sisterhood of Mother B, part of the Naval Academy Alumni Association’s Women’s Shared Interest Group, where she cohosts a podcast – “Waypoints” – that seeks to transform how we think of leaders and leadership in the military. She and her husband, a fellow Marine Corps officer, have three children.