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Winnona DeSombre Bernsen is nonresident fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Tech Programs, and a Master of Public Policy/Juris Doctor candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and Georgetown Law.

She was formerly a security engineer at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, tracking targeted threats against Google users, and she is the founder of the offensive security conference DistrictCon, held in Washington DC. In recent years, Winnona has organized policy content at DEF CON and authored multiple pieces on offensive cyber capability proliferation.