Sarah Morell is an analytic manager at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she leads teams of analysts to develop assessments for U.S. policymakers on national security priorities. She was twice nominated for the CIA’s outstanding firstline analytic supervisor in 2022 and 2023. She previously served as a CIA political analyst on the Middle East, helping to support U.S. national security objectives through written analysis and briefings to senior U.S. policymakers. She served as a briefer in the region in 2018 and as an executive assistant to a senior CIA leader from 2020-21. She was also a member of the inaugural class of McCain National Security and Counterterrorism Fellows, a cohort of rising national security leaders from the Five Eyes countries, from 2019-20. 

Morell holds a BA from the University of Chicago, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and an MAS from Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, where she served as class marshal. During her time at Yale, she was a Kerry Fellow and served as a course assistant for Ambassador Anne Patterson and a board member of Jackson Women.