NPEC Leadership & Staff

Staff

Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director

Henry Sokolski is the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and teaches graduate-level classes on nuclear policy at the University of Utah and the Institute of World Politics. He is also a Senior Fellow for Nuclear Security Studies at the University of California at San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.

He has worked in the Pentagon as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Senior Advisory Group, and as a Senate military and legislative aide.

He has also served on two congressional commissions on the prevention of WMD proliferation and has authored and edited numerous volumes on strategic weapons proliferation issues, including Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future and Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign against Strategic Weapons Proliferation.

Henry can be reached at henry@npolicy.org.

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Bailey Martin, Program Coordinator

Bailey Martin is the Program Coordinator at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Long Island University, Post, and dual majored in Criminal Justice and Political Science. She recently received her Master’s degree in Homeland Security Management at Long Island University’s Homeland Security and Terrorism Institute. Bailey can be reached at bailey@npolicy.org.

Brooke Buskirk, Production and Outreach Coordinator

Brooke Buskirk is the Production and Outreach Coordinator at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Maryland. Before joining NPEC, she was an editor at The Writer’s Bloc at the University of Maryland. Brooke can be reached at brooke@npolicy.org.

Victor Gilinsky, Program Advisor

Victor Gilinsky is an independent consultant primarily on matters related to nuclear energy.  He was a two-term commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1975-1984, and before that Head of the Rand Corporation Physical Sciences Department.  He holds a Bachelors of Engineering Physics degree from Cornell University and a PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, which gave him its Distinguished Alumni Award.  He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

John Spacapan, Wohlstetter Fellow

John Spacapan is the Wohlstetter Public Affairs Fellow at The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Previously, he was a researcher on Middle Eastern Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, working under Dr. Kenneth Pollack, Dr. Michael Rubin and Mr. J. Matthew McInnis. Prior to work at AEI, he served as a foreign policy Legislative Aide on the staff of U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. He holds a BA in Public Policy and Middle Eastern Affairs from Vanderbilt University, where he completed his capstone research paper, “ISIS: The Vanguard of Terror Recruitment in America”, and an MA from The Committee on International Relations at The University of Chicago, where he completed his thesis, “Democratic Consolidation as Collective Bargaining: The Jasmine Revolution and Tahrir Square.” John can be reached at john@npolicy.org.