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Travis Hawley

Speaker & on-camera expert on national security, open-source intelligence & the information war

Travis Hawley, national security and open-source intelligence analyst

My career lives at the intersection of intelligence and media. A former U.S. intelligence analyst and instructor (U.S. Air Force, NSA, CENTCOM, DHS), a national-security think-tank researcher, and founder of ShadowGraph Intelligence — and a regular on-air voice. I make national security, open-source and cyber intelligence, online extremism, and the information war legible for media, documentary producers, and organizations.

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Combined following
Think Tanks
Intelligence analyst
18 yrs
Intelligence experience
Global
On-air & on-stage
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Travis Hawley, national security and open-source intelligence analyst and speaker
Speaking topics

What I speak on.

Keynotes, panels, expert briefings, on-camera interviews, and documentary commentary — built from real investigations and delivered in plain language. Every topic can be tuned to your audience, format, and time slot.

National Security & Intelligence

An intelligence analyst's read on the threats shaping the world — state actors, conflict, and geopolitics, and what's really happening beneath the headlines.

Open-Source Intelligence & Digital Investigations

How investigators find, verify, and trace almost anything from public data — the OSINT tradecraft behind modern digital investigations, made clear for any audience.

Foreign Influence & the Information War

How hostile states — Iran, Russia, China, Qatar — weaponize narratives to find and exploit our fractures. Why "the real war is the information war."

Cyber Intelligence & the Threat Landscape

From nation-state operations to everyday scams — how digital threats actually work, who is behind them, and how to see them coming before they land.

Online Privacy & Digital Safety

How exposed you really are online — and how to lock it down. Footprint reduction, doxxing defense, and operational security for people and organizations.

Bots, Deepfakes & AI Propaganda

Detecting bot farms, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and synthetic media — and building the instincts to tell what is real in the age of AI.

Online Extremism, Antisemitism & Radicalization

How online radicalization pipelines turn grievance into hate and violence — from "assassination culture" to industrial-scale antisemitism — and the warning signs before they escalate. Work Jewish and communal organizations especially rely on.

Narrative Intelligence & Media Analysis

My signature method — tracing how a claim or narrative is seeded, escalated, and jumps from fringe posts into mainstream media. The media-analysis tradecraft for separating what's real from what's manufactured.

Booked by · Media & press Documentary & film Jewish & communal organizations Campuses & conferences Corporate & security teams
On stage

Keynotes & live audiences.

Talks that make foreign influence, bots, and information warfare legible to a general audience — drawn from real investigations, not theory.

Recent keynote

The Age of Bots & Foreign Influence

A keynote on how automated networks and foreign actors shape what we see online, and how to tell what's real — delivered to a live audience at Voices for Truth. Available as a keynote, workshop, or briefing, in person or virtual.

Travis Hawley delivering The Age of Bots and Foreign Influence keynote at Voices for Truth
Voices for Truth · live keynote · Watch →
On air

Television & news.

National-security analysis and commentary on the stories moving the news cycle, across American, Israeli, and international outlets.

In print

Cited by the press.

When a claim needs someone who can show how it spread, reporters call. My open-source analysis has been quoted and syndicated across the Jewish and national press.

Podcasts & long-form

In conversation.

Long-form interviews on foreign influence, disinformation, and the information war, with leading independent hosts.

About

Who I am.

My work lives at the intersection of intelligence and media — I'm a national-security and open-source intelligence analyst, a speaker, and a regular on-air voice on foreign influence and global security.

I served as a U.S. Air Force officer and intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA), as a Hebrew translator and Regional Media Analyst at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and as a contract open-source intelligence instructor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Today I work as an analyst with national-security think tanks and lead ShadowGraph Intelligence.

Through ShadowGraph Intelligence I investigate extremism, foreign influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior (bots and sock puppets), anonymous online actors, and complex digital networks.

On stage and on air, I take that same work — the traces, the networks, the disinformation — and make it clear, urgent, and useful for the people in the room. If your audience needs to understand how the information war actually works, that's the talk.

Background

Credentials & affiliations.

The firm

ShadowGraph Intelligence

For engagements that need a team and a defensible deliverable, I run the work through ShadowGraph Intelligence, my digital-intelligence practice for law firms, corporations, think tanks, media, and individuals.

Visit ShadowGraph Intelligence →
Booking & press

Book Travis to speak.

Available for keynotes, panels, briefings, and workshops — plus television, documentary, and podcast interviews and expert commentary — on national security, intelligence, OSINT, cyber, privacy, and online extremism. In person or virtual. Send a few details and I'll follow up directly.

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