Lisa Kaplan is the Founder and CEO of Alethea and serves as a Fellow at the National Security Institute (NSI). Kaplan is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Public Relations and is also part of the Board of Visitors at Colby College. Additionally, Kaplan has experience as an Associate at Argonne National Laboratory. Kaplan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Middle Eastern Studies from Colby College, where education was completed from 2009 to 2013, and attended the Middlebury Language School in 2013.