Sydney
Brashears

Sydney Brashears is a Development assistant at NTI. In this role, she is responsible for supporting individual and institutional fundraising efforts, as well as assisting the vice president for Development through gift processing, database management, donor engagement and communications.

Prior to holding this position, Brashears was an intern with NTI’s Nuclear Materials Security (NMS) team, during which time she contributed to the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification (IPNDV) and the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI), among other projects.

Before joining NTI, Brashears worked as a research associate for the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab where she contributed to the Center’s research on The Future of Cooperative Measures to Reduce Global Dangers and published on the topic of international arms control verification.

Brashears holds a Master of International Policy from the University of Georgia, specializing in nonproliferation and energy security. During graduate school, she served as a graduate assistant for the Center for International Trade and Security and interned with the U.S. Department of Commerce where she helped small business owners in Georgia navigate export controls and licensing applications. Brashears has also completed nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards courses through Brookhaven National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab. She received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and psychology from Auburn University.