Strategic Democracy Initiatives

Sofiia Kozak is a program assistant for the Strategic Democracy Initiative (SDI), where she provides both administrative and research support and manages GMF's cooperation with several stakeholders internationally. Kozak has interned with the US Senate, Voice of America, and the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International, the world's largest trade association representing the unmanned systems industry. Through these experiences, she has worked on a wide range of issues from defense policy and innovation to the regional politics of Eastern Europe. Originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, Kozak received a bachelor's degree in government with a concentration in international relations from Cornell University. In addition to graduating with distinction, Sofiia was awarded a prize recognizing students who demonstrated dedication to the field of peacebuilding.

Loren Voss is a legal fellow with GMF’s Democracy and Security Network. She works on the relationships among democratic governance, the military, and foreign policy and strategy, and is an expert on domestic deployment of the military and the law of armed conflict.

Voss has more than 18 years’ experience in government, non-profits, and academia. She previously served as director of defense policy and strategy on the US National Security Council staff and as a senior advisor for the US Department of Defense. She also taught at George Washington University Law School and was a Harvard Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellow. Voss started her career as an Air Force officer with US and NATO deployments.

Voss holds a JD from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in Global Affairs from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court after law school.

Voss is also chair of the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict at the American Society for International Law, a Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.