Krista Couture

For over a decade, Krista served as a Counterterrorism Officer at the US National Counterterrorism Center.  During her time at NCTC, she served in a variety of capacities, to include policy analyst, watch officer, and production manager. 

Krista also served as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where she researched and publisehd on gendered approaches to countering violent extremism (CVE) in Morocco and Bangladesh. 

Her passion and expertise in counterterrorism is in CVE and prevention programs, believing  that counterterrorism has evolved tremendously in the past decade and getting ahead of it with prevention is essential to countering all forms of violent extremism!

In 2017, she also began serving in a new role as a CVE Subject Matter Expert and consultant at the the International Center of Excellence on Countering Violent Extremism, Hedayah, a think/do tank on CVE. In this capacity, she works as an adviser on training and capacity building programs focused specifically on youth radicalization and reintegration, community engagement (e.g. community policing, prevention, reintegration & rehabilitation), and the role women and families play in CVE. Currently, she is working on finalizing curricula focused specifically focused on how practitioners can best support families affected by radicalization leading to violent extremism; one curriculum is aimed at psychologists and social workers and the other on law enforcement and criminal justice officials.