Tracy Walder is a former Staff Operations Officer (SOO) at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and a Special Agent at the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations and has taught at Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas. Walder is on the Board of Directors for Girl Security, a non profit group that brings national security curriculum to girls in the US and serves as a national security contributor to Al Jazeera Worldwide.