Juliette Kayyem has worked on security issues for years: she served as assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, and was also an adviser to former Attorney General Janet Reno.
Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) also has three children, and in her 2016 book “Security Mom: My Life Protecting the Home and Homeland,” she wrote about the parallels between her roles as a mother and security analyst.
The book is out in paperback this week, and today we revisit a conversation Here & Now‘s Robin Young had with Kayyem last April.
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