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Past Recipients

 

Celebrating Outstanding Early-to Mid-Career Professionals

INSA is proud of its Charlie Allen Achievement Award recipients and their legacy of meaningful contributions to the intelligence and National security communities. 

NOTE: Due to the ceremony moving from fall to winter, no ceremony was held in 2015. The Joan A. Dempsey Mentorship Award was established in 2011. 

2024

Left to Right -

  • Amanda Nashed, Homeland Security Analyst, Office of Intelligence, Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
  • Jennifer Finley, Communications & Networking Systems Assistant Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
  • Julia Buffinton, Program Manager, LMI
  • LCDR Iris Kaku, USN, Chief of Analysis, Indications and Warning, U.S. Navy, Pacific Fleet HQ
  • Nathaniel Bundy, Lead Threat Analyst, National Space Defense Center
  • Faye Cuevas, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Special Operations Command - Africa
  • Jason A. Payne, Research Lead, Directed Energy Bioeffects, Air Force Research Laboratory

Event Recap. Event Photos.


2023

  • Elizabeth Teoman, Analyst, Office of Naval Intelligence
  • Sarah Vaughn McPeak, Senior Technical Specialist, Global-Enhanced Geospatial-Intelligence Delivery Program, Maxar Technologies
  • Miyako Yerick, Intelligence Analyst, ESMC, Office of Intelligence & Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • MSgt Amanda D. Scurry, USAF, Senior Enlisted Leader, Information Operations Office, National Security Agency-Hawaii
  • MSgt Josef Stefan Margetiak, USAF, Operations Superintendent, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Division, Space Delta 5, U.S. Space Force
  • Cameo Lance, Physicist & COO, Rhea Space Activity, Inc.

Event Recap. Event Photos.


2022

  • Jaime Arribas Starkey-El, Data Scientist & Software Engineer, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
  • Mary Ann Kissinger, Requirements and Integration Analyst, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  • Marylesa Howard, PhD, Principal Scientist, Nevada National Security Site, Department of Energy
  • Cadienne Naquin Hopkins, Senior Business Development Manager, Altana AI; Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, The Command Purpose Foundation
  • MSgt Elizebeth L. Harris, USAF, Operations Superintendent, All-Domain Overhead Cooperative Operations Group, Mission Integration Directorate, National Reconnaissance Office
  • Shadi Elreda, Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security 

Event Recap. Event Photos. 


 

2021

(virtual event)

  • Meghan Flannery Hayes, Complex Systems Monitoring Department Head, Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State
  • Meg Guliford, Vice-Provost Post Doctoral Fellow, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
  • Darek Kawamoto, Principal Engineer, Algorithms, HawkEye360
  • Victoria Rossi, Intelligence Research Specialist, CISA/DHS
  • Maj. Arturo A. "Jay" Tibayan, Jr., USA, Duty Officer, White House Situation Room, National Security Council, The White House
  • Jessica S. Van Cleaf, SIGINT Program Manager, Assistant Commandant for Intelligence, U.S. Coast Guard, CG-257

Event Recap. 


 

2020

(L-R) INSA President Suzanne Wilson Heckenberg; Franklin Mosca, FBI; David P. Oakley, National Defense University; The Hon. Ellen McCarthy, U.S. Department of State; Megan Jaffer, Amazing Women of the IC; TSgt. William N. Haskell (USAF), NRO; INSA Chairman Letitia A. Long. Not pictured: Anita Brown, U.S. Department of State; Abe Usher, Black Cape.

Event Recap. Event Photos. 


 

2019

(L-R) INSA Chairman Letitia A. Long; Adam Van Etten, PhD, In-Q-Tel CosmiQ Works; Dakota S. Rudesill, Ohio State University; Lori Anne Parker, DHS;  Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley, Jr., DIA; Saeben Haverington, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Philip Haddad, DHS; Capt. Nicholas D'Andrea, USAF, NRO; J. Travis Thompson, DIA; INSA President Chuck Alsup. 

Event Recap. Event Photos.


 

2018

(L-R) Patrick Biltgen, PhD, Vencore; Lt. Adrienne Walsh, FDNY; LT Rachel O. Carter, USN, USSOCOM;  Allison Lawlor Russell, PhD, Merrimack College; Don Parlett, DIA; David Lindenbaum, In-Q-Tel; SMSgt Timothy Favreau, USAF, NRO.

Event Recap.


 

2017

(L-R) Thomas D. Smith, Dept. of Treasury; CPT Brigid K. Calhoun, USA; Janna Scott-Tarman, DIA; Sean Sullivan, ICE; DIA Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, USMC; Sara Jamshidi, Applied Research Lab-Penn State; Mandy Rogers, Northrop Grumman.

Event Photos.


 

2016

(L-R) INSA Chairman Letitia A. Long; Robert A. Lagnado, Secret Service; Candace P. Sharkey, DEA; Satyabrata Sen, PhD, Oak Ridge National Lab; Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; LT Jared McGuire, USCG, Cryptologic Unit Colorado; Zalenda Cyrille, Vencore; Cynthia M. Epler, DIA; INSA President Chuck Alsup.