Snyder was last appointed and served in the Biden Administration as the Chief of Staff of the Office of Partnership & Engagement at U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prior to that, he served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the DHS Counterterrorism Coordinator and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary, focusing on partnerships with law enforcement, the tech industry, community organizations, and the faith-based community. He oversaw the reorganization and workforce transformation of the Secretary’s Office of Partnership and Engagement, helped establish the first DHS Tribal Advisory Council, and re-established the Department’s Faith-based Advisory Council. He played a key role in reinvigorating the Department’s counterterrorism efforts and contributed to the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia, and The DHS Roadmap for Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence. One of his proudest achievements during the Biden Administration was his contribution to Operation Allies Welcome–the evacuation of approximately 100,000 Afghan Allies to the United States. During this effort, Snyder developed a strategy, recruited and led a nation-wide interagency team of external affairs officers. This effort ensured that the needs of Afghan evacuees were met through effective communication, coordination, and the mobilization of local resources via public-private partnerships. For his leadership, he was awarded the Secretary’s Meritorious Silver Medal. In addition to these duties, he served as a subject matter expert and advised the Department and White House National Security Council on border security, artificial intelligence, human trafficking, public-private partnerships, terrorism prevention, election security, disinformation, foreign malign influence, transnational repression, social engineering, infrastructure protection, and threat mitigation. Snyder’s leadership extends to academia. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches a graduate course in threat risk management. He helped redesign the program to include elements on cybersecurity, election security, international relations, environmental security, and national security. Prior to rejoining government during the Biden Administration, Snyder was an Executive Vice President with Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC, a national security consulting and strategic communications firm. In that role, he advised and supported Fortune 500, federal, and state and local clients on cybersecurity, counterterrorism, information and intelligence sharing, and law enforcement engagement. He supported the Voting Village’s election security exploits at DEFCON 2019, assessing vulnerabilities in current-use voting machines. He also supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center. Snyder provided guidance to clients on engaging with domestic and international law enforcement regarding terrorist use of the internet, cyber threats, terrorism prevention, countering foreign influence, and intelligence analysis. He has provided counterterrorism analysis on CBS This Morning, Meet the Press Daily, MSNBC Live, and CNN Tonight. He has also contributed analysis on the 5G network race and national security vulnerabilities posed by Huawei with Hill TV. He is also a contributor to other media outlets such as C-SPAN, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Hill, and Yahoo News on national security, cybersecurity, counterterrorism, and law enforcement. During the Obama Administration, Snyder was appointed and served as a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) counterterrorism official and advisor to the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Counterterrorism Center, and White House National Security Council. His role focused on developing partnerships with domestic and international law enforcement, state and local officials, the tech sector, foundations, non-government organizations, and communities to prevent terrorism. He contributed to the Obama Administration’s efforts to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Snyder was a key contributor to the White House’s first Strategic Implementation Plan to Empower Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States and its 2016 update. He led the interagency effort to develop and host the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s workshop for Countering Violent Extremism Through Community Oriented Policing. He specialized in terrorist use of the internet and worked with Five Eyes (United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia) and European Union partners on information sharing standards regarding terrorist-based cyber threats. Snyder was a regular counterterrorism lecturer at the CIA Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis and has lectured at the White House, National Counterterrorism Center, National Security Agency, U.S. Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Institute of Peace, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Before joining the Obama Administration in 2009, he held senior positions with the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign. Most recently, Snyder was a candidate to be the next Chair of the Democratic National Committee. While placing fourth in a crowded field, his campaign was successful in changing the narrative where challenges regarding cybersecurity, disinformation, election security, foreign interference, and adopting national security solutions to such problems, were brought to the forefront. He is a graduate of the White House National Security Leadership Workshop’s inaugural class and a board member of the Obama Latino Appointee Alumni Association: LATINOS44. In 2019, he was recognized as a New America Latino leader in national security. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a Master’s Degree from the U.S. Naval War College in national security and counterterrorism.