Jun 26 | Author talk: Christina Hillsberg on “Agents of Change”

Writer and former CIA officer Christina Hillsberg discusses her book Agents of Change with Gina Warner

Bards Alley welcomes visiting author Christina Hillsberg for a discussion about her new book Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA! She will be in conversation with Gina Warner, the founder of our Badass Women’s Book Club.

Out June 24, Agents of Change chronicles how women have navigated gender norms in the intelligence community and society at large from the 1960s to the present. It draws on the author’s background as a former CIA agent to provide exclusive interviews with former and current operations officers.

The Q&A will be followed by a book signing. Attendees can purchase a copy during the event or reserve one in advance along with their free registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-christina-hillsberg-agents-of-change-tickets-1303012789329?aff=oddtdtcreator

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christina Hillsberg is a former CIA intelligence officer, writer, and recognized expert on women in espionage and intelligence tradecraft. The recipient of multiple CIA Exceptional Performance Awards, her work at the CIA included specializing in African politics and leaders as one of the intelligence community’s few Swahili and Zulu linguists, producing analytic assessments for senior-level policymakers including the president and his cabinet, and serving in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, clandestinely collecting intelligence from the field.

After leaving the CIA, Christina worked in information security at Amazon, where she set up the company’s first Insider Threat program, created a new global framework to analyze cyber risks, and established new processes to utilize intelligence tradecraft to analyze information security threats. The author of License to Parent and Agents of Change, her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, Harvard Business Review, Parents magazine, The Daily Beast, Parade, and more. She lives with her family in Boston, Massachusetts.