Rebecca Burgess is senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute and acting director of the Classics in Strategy and Diplomacy project. A 2021 National Security Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, she’s an Advisory Board Member of Combined Arms and of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation/Monticello, and a participant in the NEH Educating for American Democracy: A Roadmap for Excellence in History and Civics Education project. Additionally, she is a member of the George W. Bush Institute’s Veterans in Higher Education Task Force and a member of the Reader Review Board of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Journal.