Stern in WaPo on Fear in the Active Shooter Era
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for an article on the real fear and heightened alert in the era of active shooter training and lockdown drills.
Stern was quoted in a March 19, 2019 article in The Washington Post entitled “False Alarms, Real Fear: Even Without Gunfire, Active Shooter Alerts Create Terror.“
From the text of the article:
Even the way people at Michigan responded Saturday — mistaking popping balloons for gunshots — “suggests heightened anxiety,” said Jessica Stern, a research professor at Boston University and an expert in trauma and terrorism.
Stern has held fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Erik Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Stern taught as a Lecturer at Harvard University from 1999-2015. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stern has nearly completed her training as an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. Learn more about her here.