My research has been covered and shared by multiple outlets, and my students and I have been profiled for our projects and experiences. I am also a periodic contributor to a professional magazine serving the industrial and systems engineering community.
This page indexes all media appearances and articles. Click here for a summary of articles related to elections security.
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News Articles
How long will it take to rebuild the Key Bridge following its collapse? (March 2024)
Port of Baltimore businesses pivot after Key Bridge collapse: ‘We’re already making alternative plans’ (March 2024)
Cybersecurity is everyone’s business (March 2024)
Banner political notes: Mayor debate next week; feeding bills to the sharks; Baltimore and Senate endorsements (February 2024)
Survey seeks to identify issues with voting process in Anne Arundel County (February 2024)
Teaming Up to Improve Maryland Elections: New Survey Looks to Streamline Voting Processes and Increase Voter Turnout (January 2024)
VI Kickoff Meeting Summary (January 2024)
Fact Check: False Claim That Mail-in Voting is Connected to Bad Actors, Fraudulent Ballots (November 2022)
Voter Fraud and Ballot Security (November 2022)
Election Security Matters in the 2022 Midterms (November 2022)
WBAL’s Commitment 2022 Preview Special (interview starts at 14:18) (November 2022)
Election Security: Simple Mistakes Outnumber Fraud Attempts, Neither Happen Enough to Affect Election Outcomes (November 2022)
Local Registrar says Humbolt County Prepared for Election Day Disruptions (November 2022)
What a Divided Nebraska Town Shows About Mail-in Voting (October 2022)
TU Launches Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Center, Appoints First Endowed Professor of Cybersecurity (April 2022)
Disability inclusion programs help warehouses hire overlooked talent (February 2022)
Mail-in Voting Does Not Increase Chance of Election Fraud - Study (January 2022)
Study Shows That Increased Voting by Mail Does Not Reduce the Security of US Elections (January 2022)
New Study Finds Voting by Mail Does Not Increase Risk of Voting Fraud (January 2022)
USA: Postal Voting is Not a Security Risk (ftd.de (Germany), January 2022)
Election Fraud Isn’t Increased by Mail-in Voting, According to a Study (January 2022)
Mail-in Voting Secure, TU Study Finds (January 2022)
An Earful of Ideas: 3 Seasons of Problem Solved (December 2021)
TU Election Security Expert Will Present to NATO (October 2021)
Legislators Propose Federal Office to Manage Supply Chain Crises (October 2021)
Power Moves (March 2021)
Panic Buying, Stockpiling Returns as COVID Cases Surge (November 2020)
Keeping the Election and Ballots Integrity Intact (November 2020)
Les « poll workers », gardiens anonymes de la démocratie américaine (The "poll workers" anonymous guardians of American democracy) (November 2020)
Local Experts Address 2020 Security and Misinformation Threats (November 2020)
“New Phase of Cyber Warfare”: In 2020, Election Security and Misinformation Threats are More Domestic than Foreign (November 2020)
The Years of Work That Went Into Preparing Towson University for Election Day (November 2020)
Towson University Professor, Anne Arundel County Team Up on Election Cybersecurity Training (October 2020)
Maryland Mail-in Ballots at Historic Levels Before Election Day (October 2020)
Towson U Trains Election Judges in Election Security Threats (October 2020)
Protecting Maryland’s Polling Places (October 2020)
Friday is Deadline to Request Absentee Ballot in Virginia (October 2020)
Where Oklahoma Stands in Making Sure Your Vote Counts (October 2020)
Researcher Explains Study Results Showing Mail-in Voting is Secure (October 2020)
Towson University Professor Aims to Bolster Local Election Security at Voting Sites (October 2020)
Election Security Concerns After a Week of Reported Issues (October 2020)
Virtually Honoring TU’s Community Partners (October 2020)
Expert: Maryland Hasn’t Had Widespread Fraud with In-person or Mail-in Voting (September 2020)
COVID-19 and the Impact on Election Security (August 2020)
Supply Chain Management B.S./M.S. Expands Eligible Student Pool (July 2020)
Women of ISE: Breaking Barriers, Solving Problems (June 2020)
Associate Professor Publishes Book on Military Operations Research (April 2020)
Securing the Election (November 2019)
Can Facebook Reinvent Money? (June 2019)
TU’s Supply Chain Management MS receives DHS STEM Designation (May 2019)
TU Offers New Accelerated Dual Degree Track in Supply Chain Management (September 2018)
Megan Price is Doing Her Part to Protect Our Elections (June 2018)
INFORMS Highlights Research by IE Faculty and Alumna (December 2017)
Students and Professors Share Cyber Security Project at Manufacturing Day (October 2017)
Students Compete in Analytics Challenges (August 2016)
Op-ED
Drop Boxes, Mail-in Voting Are Not Threats to Election Integrity (January 2022)
Texas Vote Restrictions Fight Fraud - But Where is the Fraud? (October 2021)
Lessons Unlearned: Misguided Efforts in the Guise of Election Security (June 2021)
Secure Elections, Misinformed Rhetoric (January 2021)
COVID Crisis Amid Election Season: 3 Threats to Consider Before Making a Very Important Decision (August 2020)
Statements for the record
Statements submitted to the United States Congress
Ongoing Threats to Election Administration - Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (November 2023) PDF
Voting in America: The Potential for Polling Place Quality and Restrictions on Opportunities to Vote to Interfere with Free and Fair Access to the Ballot - Committee on House Administration (June 2021) PDF
Profiles
Shining the Spotlight on Mail-based Voting and Student Research (Winter 2021)
CRC Press Featured Author (June 2020)
INFORMS 25th Anniversary Testimonial (May 2020)
What’s Your StORy? (December 2019)
Practical Solutions for the Construction Industry (Fall 2019, page 11)
What’s Your Story? (June 2019)
INFORMS In Case You Missed It (November 2017)
Choosing the Right Defense (Fall 2017)
PRofiles of Student Researchers
Creating Supply Chain Solutions (November 2022)
Making Her Own Tiger Tracks (December 2020)
Protecting Maryland’s Voting Processes at Towson University (October 2019)
Seizing a ‘Gem’ of an Opportunity to Graduate with a Full-Time Job (May 2019)
ACES Students Work on US Voting Vulnerabilities (February 2019)
How My Business Education Will Help Me Create Social Change (May 2018)
A Q&A with Jasmin Farahani (June 2017)
LIVE EVENTS
Voting Rights Laws and Election Fraud: The Role of Mail-In Voting (August 2021)
I served as a panelist, along with Dr. Josh Dehlinger, as part of the INFORMS webinar series on operations research and policymaking. Josh and I discuss risks and threats associated with mail voting along with training poll workers to identify and mitigate threats at polling places.
ARLIS Insider Risk Speaker Series (March 2021)
I served as a panelist, along with Doug Thomas (Lockheed Martin), Matt Eanes (PAC PMO), and Cy Genna (Zoom) to discuss the state of insider threat and insider risk paradigms. A summary of the talking points from the event can be found here.
Resoundingly Human (October 2020)
INFORMS podcast that brings operations research and analytics to life by discussing real world, impactful applications of these techniques to large-scale problems. The audience is meant to be general and non-technical. This episode is called Protecting Election Security, How Safe is Your Vote? I discuss threats to election security and what can be done to protect the integrity of votes cast. The podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.
Cyber Security and Elections (August 2020)
I served as a panelist, along with Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor (Ret.) of US Cyberdome, as part of the INFORMS webinar series on operations research and policymaking. We discuss the state of elections security in the run-up to the 2020 General Election. I also cover COVID-19 implications to the election, and the scale-up of mail-based voting during the pandemic.
Problem Solved (May 2020)
This is the podcast from the IISE and features conversations with industrial and systems engineers about their work, ideas and solutions. I am featured on season 1, episode 20 regarding elections security and the Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research. The podcast is available on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, and other services. You can also find the episode through the link above. This podcast was selected as a top 10 episode in December 2021.
What’s Your StORy? (December 2019)
INFORMS monthly series to highlight academics and practitioners working in operations research. This is a live interview that focuses on my research and books, involvement with and benefits of being an INFORMS member, and experiences as a woman in the field. A link to the ORMS Today magazine that accompanies this interview is in the Profiles section above.
Resoundingly Human (November 2018)
INFORMS podcast that brings operations research and analytics to life by discussing real world, impactful applications of these techniques to large-scale problems. The audience is meant to be general and non-technical. I am featured on season 1, episode 5 regarding cyber, physical, and insider threats at polling places. I start at about the 9:20 mark. The podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher. You can also find the episode here.
INFORMS Government and Analytics Summit (May 2018)
This inaugural event was held in May 2018 in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The summit featured panels on national security, healthcare, and transportation, and I was honored to serve as a panelist for National Security. Our goal was to communicate the value of applying operations research and analytics methods and techniques to national security problems. Our audience was policymakers and congressional staffers who are well versed in national security but may not have a mathematics and decision analysis background.
Columns
I have been a periodic contributor to Industrial Management magazine, and I am currently contributing to Phalanx through my role as President of the Military and Security Society (MAS) of INFORMS. Please see my Credits page for permissions information related to these columns. The Mentorship Minute is a series of webinars sponsored by MAS, on which I periodically serve as a panelist.
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Moving Forward with MAS (December 2020)
MAS in the Time of COVID (September 2020)
My How Our Lives Have Changed! (June 2020)
MAS Gathers, Celebrates, and Honors at the INFORMS Annual Meeting (December 2019)
Building Toward a Stronger Future Together (September 2019)
Stronger Together (June 2019)
Introducing the New MAS Leadership (March 2019)
Industrial Management
In Cybersecurity, Different Professionals Value Different Attributes (March/April 2018) PDF
How Your Expert Thinks Can Determine Methodology (November/December 2017) PDF
Cyber as an Emerging Area of Industrial Engineering (March/April 2016) PDF
Annual Conference Preview (November/December 2015) PDF
Introduction (September/October 2015) PDF
MAS Mentorship Minute
Mentoring for the Early Career Professional (April 2020)
Why Won’t They Use My Model? (July 2020)
Virtual Audiences
I have had the privilege and the enjoyment of participating in virtual audiences on QVC! These are truly fun and lighthearted experiences, and I hope the viewers liked the products as much as I did. In exchange for my testimonials, I received free samples of product from the network.
Beauty with Benefits: May 25, 2021
Shoe Shopping with Jane: June 22, 2021
Calista Tools: January 22, 2022
Innovative Decisions
Innovative Decisions, Inc. partnered with ProvatoHR, Inc. to create a series of videos to introduce stakeholders and clients to the company as well as communicate the value of analytics. Check out a few of these videos to learn more.