Patty-Jane Geller

Patty-Jane Geller is the senior policy analyst for nuclear deter- rence and missile defense in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense. Before joining Heritage in 2020, Geller served at the Senate Armed Services Committee as a staff assistant for the Strategic Forces and Cybersecurity Subcom- mittees, where she worked to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. Prior to being employed at SASC, she worked in the Office of Congresswoman Elise Ste- fanik (NY-21). She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Govern- ment and a minor degree in physics at Georgetown University and received a Master of Arts degree in Military Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College.