Stephanie Viegas

Stephanie Viegas joined the Secure Community Network (SCN) as Deputy National Security Advisor in March 2022. In this role, Stephanie provides consultations, building and organizational assessments, training, exercises, and threat mitigation guidance to Jewish organizations nationwide. Stephanie works with schools, daycare centers, synagogues, camps, campus organizations, assisted living facilities, and other Jewish life centers. 

Before joining the Secure Community Network, Stephanie served as the Director of Community Security for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, where she developed a collaborative security program that provided security consultations, site assessments, and training to over 150 Jewish institutions. 

Previously, Stephanie spent more than two decades as a Special Agent with the FBI, where she served as a subject matter expert in weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Her 22-year career involved extensive operational experience investigating, managing, and advising complex law enforcement and sensitive national security matters. She led efforts to prevent and neutralize WMD threats against the U.S. homeland and interests abroad. Stephanie served as an instructor for the FBI/Department of Defense Counter-Proliferation program, which provides specialized training to law enforcement agencies within the Balkans, Baltics, States of the former Soviet Union, and Asia. In addition, she worked as an instructor for Interpol within their Bioterrorism Program and served in a temporary duty assignment at Interpol headquarters in Leon, France. 

Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Kutztown University and a master’s degree in criminology with a leadership emphasis in weapons of mass destruction from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.