Why is the EWF Sisterhood important to you and how was it influenced your leadership?
“The EWF sisterhood has been a source of inspiration and support to me as Iead my organization. Some of the women of EWF have become my closest friends and most trusted confidants — “my personal board of advisors”
I am an authentic, passionate and fearless leader.
More about Dena
Dena Haritos Tsamitis leads Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute (INI), where her efforts prepare the next generation of professionals in information networking, information security, mobile and Internet of Things engineering, and artificial intelligence engineering. With a passion to increase diversity in STEM, Dena has served as a student advocate and mentor of women and the co-founder of Women@INI (WINI) student organization.
Under her leadership, CMU earned three federal designations as a National Center of Academic Excellence in information assurance and cyber defense, research and cyber operations. Dena is the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service program that prepares promising analysts and hackers for government service. As a founding director of CMU CyLab, she spearheaded education, training and outreach, including MySecureCyberspace, an initiative to raise “cyberawareness” that reached over one million people in 167 countries.
Dena is a member of the American College of Greece Board of Trustees. She serves on the board of advisors for the RSA Conference, Executive Women’s Forum, Bolster (formerly RedMarlin), Inc. and the Norfolk State University Information Assurance Research, Education and Development Institute. She received CMU’s 2012 Barbara Lazarus Award for Graduate Student and Junior Faculty Mentoring and, in 2017, received the first endowed Barbara Lazarus Professorship in Information Networking. Dena was named 2018 Woman in IT Security Power Player by SC Magazine and received the 2008 Women of Influence Award, presented by Alta Associates and CSO Magazine. Dena holds a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.
Learn about other EWF members and why the EWF sisterhood is important to them: https://ewfblog.com/why-is-the-ewf-sisterhood-important-to-you-and-how-has-it-influenced-your-leadership/