Stacey Dixon gives us a peek inside her world.
, which compiles the work of the entire US intelligence community for the President. She’s also a native Washingtonian who attended Georgetown Day School before studying engineering at Stanford and Georgia Tech. Dixon likes to go to farmers markets and see shows at the Kennedy Center and listen to gospel, jazz, and go-go. Her life resembles that of a lot of people around here, except that she spends her days fretting over the kind of scary stuff that regular locals never even find out about.
How does an engineering major wind up in the spy biz? For Dixon, the dot-com crash of the early 2000s narrowed her post-college options, and “I ended up coming back to DC and realizing how many of our family friends actually worked in the intelligence community.” The CIA brought her onboard to focus on satellite technology, then got hired by the