Terry Clower, Ph.D. Technology in Northern Virginia

Jenna Follin

#Jenna Follin is a recent college graduate from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She double majored in Business Management and Communications & Media Studies with minors in Marketing and French. During her college years, Jenna has had 4 internship experiences in industries including sales, SEO, marketing strategy, and digital and social media marketing. Tune in to hear her college and internship journeys, details about her current job search, and advice that she has for her fellow young professional

Ursula Cowan-A police detective and a security expert

Ursula Cowan, is a Senior Threat Research Analyst at Verodin (a FireEye Company), focusing on researching adversaries’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), breaking them down to the smallest behaviors, for the purpose of replicating them within the Verodin Security Instrumentation Platform. Ursula's career started as a police detective investigating cyber-crime, death, and online exploitation. She later added computer forensics examiner to her list of responsibilities. Her training in computer forensics was at the U.S. Secret Service’s National Computer Forensic Institute (NCFI) she holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology, and graduates in May ’20 with a Master of Science in Digital Forensics from the University of Central Florida

Brian Reed--Expert in Mobile Security

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Krysta James--Human Resources

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Terry Clower, Ph.D. Technology in Northern Virginia

Terry L. Clower is Northern Virginia Chair and Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is also director of GMU’s Center for Regional Analysis. The Center provides economic and public policy research services to sponsors in the private, non-profit and public sectors. Prior to joining GMU, he was director for the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas. Dr. Clower has authored or co-authored over 170 articles, book chapters, and research reports reflecting experience in economic and community development, economic and fiscal impact analysis, housing, transportation, land use planning, and economic forecasting. His scholarly articles have appeared in Economic Development Quarterly; Urban Studies; Economic Development Review; Regional Studies, Regional Science; the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies; Regional Studies Regional Science, Sustaining Regions; and Applied Research in Economic Development. His most recent publication is the textbook Globalization, Planning and Local Economic Development with Prof. Andrew Beer (Taylor-Francis, London). Dr. Clower received a B.S. in Marine Transportation from Texas A&M University in 1982, a M.S. in Applied Economics from the University of North Texas in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the University of North Texas in 1997 specializing in information policy issues and the use of information resources.