Dani Schulkin

Dani Schulkin (LinkedIn – X) is the Director of Democracy Initiatives at Just Security. She previously served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and as Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor at the White House. Her work spans national security, democratic governance, and administrative law.

During her tenure in the Biden Administration, Schulkin coordinated national security policy at the Department of Justice, where she led initiatives on election security, foreign malign influence, illegal domestic drones and illicit fentanyl trafficking. At the National Security Council, she managed domestic crisis response, terrorism prevention, and a range of other homeland security issues. She began her service in the Office of the Staff Secretary,  charged with reviewing all presidential briefing memos and executive actions.

Her previous roles include positions at the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet and Technology, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. She began her legal career as a Legal Fellow at Just Security.

Schulkin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Yale Journal on Regulation, the University of Pennsylvania Regulatory Review, and Just Security, with a focus on domestic terrorism, democratic institutions, and national security. She is also on the Leadership Council of LCWins, a non-profit dedicated to advancing gender parity in national security and foreign policy decision-making.

She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she received the Vanderbilt Medal and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, and a B.A. from Harvard University, where she was Captain of the Harvard Women’s Swim and Dive Team.