MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN

5547 Harford Street, Churchton MD 20733

Phone: (202) 441-0700
Email: MartinEdwinAndersen@yahoo.com
A dynamic and accomplished professional in public policy analysis; project design and
management, teaching, and strategic communications and planning, Mick Andersen has
extensive experience in journalism, government, higher education, and with the private
sector, having served as the senior strategist and spokesman for a variety of high-profile
public and private entities. His skills include program development and implementation;
research; writing and editing; teaching; community outreach; congressional advocacy;
corporate communications; strategy innovation; diversity; speech writing; public and media
relations; social networking; curriculum development; capacity building; opposition
research; conflict resolution, and mentorship. Web publishing and social media experience
includes WordPress, PowerPoint, Excel, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Fluent in Spanish,
Andersen has worked in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, always earning Outstanding
performance reviews.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor for National Security Affairs, National Defense University

Adjunct Professor, History Department, United States Naval Academy
Lecturer on Latin American Politics in the Political Science Department, UMBC
Adjunct Professor / World Politics, School of International Service, The American University
International Human Rights Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of
New York
Lecturer on War Crimes and Justice, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs:
o Peoples of the Earth; Ethnonationalism, Democracy and the Indigenous Challenge in
Latin America, (Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, 2010.)
o La Policia: Pasado, Presente y Propuestas para el Futuro, (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana,
2002). A 455-page history, written in Spanish, of the Argentine police from 1880 to
1999.
o Dossier Secreto: Argentinas Desaparecidos and the Myth of the Dirty War, (Boulder:
Westview Press, 1993). (A tour de force - The New York Times. Spanish-language
version [Planeta, 1993] No. 1 bestseller in Argentina.)
o Editor, Hacia una Nueva Relacin: El papel de las Fuerzas Armadas en un Gobierno
Democrtico. (Prologue by former Vice President Walter Mondale; NDI, 1990.)
Articles:
o Flags of Their Stepfathers? Race and Culture in the Context of Military Service and the
Fight for Citizenship, in Rikke Schubart (ed.), Eastwoods Iwo Jima: A Critical Engagement
With Flags of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima, (New York/London: Columbia University
Press/Wallflower Press, 2013).
o A Roadmap for Beating Latin Ameericas Transnational Criminal Organizations, Joint
Force Quarterly 62, 3rd Quarter, 2011.
o
Onto the Right Side of History: Confronting the Worlds Last Colonial Legacies by
Supporting Indigenous Peoples, The Culture and Conflict Review, Vol. 4, Issue No. 3,
Fall 2010.
o Ethnic Politics, Defense and Security in Latin America, Joint Force Quarterly 58, 3rd

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U.S. Military Justice: Present at the Creation, Security and Defense Studies Review, Vol.
10, Spring/Sum. 2009.
Advanced Guard: Strategic Communications and the Dual Agency of the U.S. Armed
Forces Chaplaincy, Security and Defense Studies Review, Volume 9, Issues 1&2,
2009.
Argentine Police and the Dirty War: A Study of What Not to Do, and When Not to Do
It, in Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Oxford Journals; Oxford University Press
(Summer 2009).
Co-author (with James Jay Carafano and Richard Weitz), Maritime Security: Fighting
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Beyond, Heritage Foundation Special Report # 59, June
24, 2009.
Failing States, Ungoverned Spaces and the Indigenous Challenge in Latin America,
Security and Defense Studies Review, Volume 6 No. 2, August 2006.
The Undone Reform: Civil-Military Relations and the Administration of Justice in
Mexico, in Riordan Roett (ed.), The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico,
(Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1995).
Chiapas, Indigenous Rights and the Coming Fourth World Revolution, The SAIS Review,
Summer-Fall 1994, Vol. 14, No. 2.
International Administration of Justice: The New American Security Frontier, The SAIS
Review, Winter-Spring 1993, Vol. 13, No. 1.
The Military Obstacle to Latin Democracy, Foreign Policy, No. 73, Winter 19881989.

MORE DETAILED RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE (Full list available upon request)
Andersens WordWorks
Washington, D.C.
Business Owner
July 2014
Present
- Andersen's WordWorks delivers expertise ranging from proofreading and factchecking, to speech writing and producing customized content for target
constituencies and communications crises. These services aim to support or backstop
lawmakers, officials and their staff; experts; practitioners in the field, and colleagues in
the news media. It also advises companies, non-profits and individuals on how best to
package stories about what they do, where they want to go, and why, drawing the
attention of major media outlets. With solid experience in strategic communications, it
is adept at creating comprehensive media strategies, recruiting talent for special
media, and publicity projects.
Department of History, United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Adjunct Professor
February
2014 June 2014
- Taught History of Modern Latin America and two sections of the core course, The
West in the Modern World.
- Created amd developed an original teaching paradigm not only for greater
implementation of USNA core values into the Academys educational process, but also
to better reflect its mission by impacting positively on recruitment and community
relations, teamwork, organizatiional structure, and strategic management.
Official evaluation: "His innovative approach to teaching his classes and his
exceptional dedication to advancing the mission of the Naval Academy distinguished
him among the other adjunct instructors. ... I highly recommend Mr. Andersen as he
consistently went above and beyond the requirements of employment at the Naval

Academy. He is a dedicated, passionately committed teacher who will bring inspiration

and motivation to any classroom."
Piracy Daily
Washington, D.C.
Editor-in-Chief
October 2012
November 2013
Developed and directed comprehensive strategies promoting the message about the
importance of public and private international counter-piracy efforts to international
trade.
Served as director and moderator of the Piracy Daily / Maritime TV series on counter
piracy.
Built a wide network of contributors (journalists, bloggers, thought leaders, etc.).
- Publicly recognized for corporate communications, crisis management, ethics and
compliance, and knowledge management skills, among others.
Political Science Department, UMBC
Rockville, MD
Lecturer
May June
2012
Taught five-week, 300-level intensive three-credit course on Latin American Politics.
Received Outstanding student evaluations.
Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
Washington, D.C.
Assistant Professor / Chief, Strategic Communications
December 2005 March 2011FT.
- Designed comprehensive strategic communications plans, information strategies,
tactics, and operations to strengthen Centers image in the United States and abroad,
including advanced integrated planning, ensuring message consistency, engagement
of key audiences, selection of most suitable media, etc.
- Delivered real-time analysis of geopolitical issues and trends while at the same time
creating and leading project design and management in priority areas and establishing
a broad network of security and defense studies and research institutions.
- Devised and taught modules on Strategic Communications, the Media and the Military,
and Ethnicity and the Military and the Police and served a editor-in-chief of peerreviewed Security and Defense Studies Review.
- Proactively addressed, solved, and/or averted media crises.
- Received unbroken Outstanding performance evaluations emphasizing superior
teamwork, multi-cultural understanding, initiative, ethics, and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Mick provided invaluable expertise and insights that helped shape the Department of
State's approach to indigenous issues in the Western Hemisphere. A phenomenal
intellect, he distilled vast amounts of knowledge into concrete policy and
administrative recommendations. - Francisco Javier Gonzalez, Director, Office of
Western Hemisphere Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S.
Department of State
Freedom House
Washington,
D.C.
Senior Research Associate
September
1997 February 2006
- Researched and wrote assessments of political freedom and civil liberties in 35
countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for Freedom in the World annual volume.
- Authored major contributions to other Freedom House publications the Press
Freedom Survey, Countries at the Crossroads, and Religious Freedom in the World.

Successfully obtained greater inclusion of indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians in

rights measurements and narratives.

Port Security News

Washington, D.C.
Managing Editor
July 2004
March 2005
- Managed paper and electronic publications; reported (in English and Spanish) on
breaking news; wrote features, interviews, technology reports, etc., and served as
Communications Director of the Port Security Council.
Congressional Quarterly / Homeland Security
Washington, D.C.
Staff Writer
July 2003
July 2004
- Covered U.S. Department of Homeland Security focusing on anti-terrorism, internal
security and homeland defense, breaking several major stories that led to official
agency investigations.
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Washington, D.C.
Media Director
January 2001 June
2003
- Directed strategic media outreach in support of GAPs mission of protecing the public
interest by promting government and media accountability; wrote and placed opinion
pieces, features, and current-events articles in major news media; interacted with
media/press.
- Managed high-impact media campaigns for both strategic outreach and grassroots
engagement.
Inter-American Development Bank
Washington, D.C.
International Consultant
September 1997 December 2000
- Advised on broad range of development issues; conducted desk audits, on-site reports
and comprehensive evaluations of policies, programs, and systems, and prepared
detailed strategies for specific programs and projects (e.g. Best Practices: A Report on
Strategies for Provision of Resources to Public Safety and Police Programs).
- Represented the Bank during external meetings with senior officials and site
visits/projects in region.
International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
Washington, D.C.
Consultant
May 1998
February 1999
- Served as the senior editor and legislative systems specialist for a project resulting in
the creation of a 200-page Transitional Election Planning Manual for future use in an
electoral opening in Cuba.
Office of Professional Development and Training (OPDAT),
Criminal Division, Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Senior Advisor for Policy Planning
September 1997

December 1995

Developed and established organizational, management, and operational

plans/guidelines,
policy
objectives,
and
measurement
criteria
for
prosecutorial/investigative training programs.
Selected and prepared outgoing long-term legal advisors for posts overseas; created
training curricula, and coordinated a multi-million-dollar prosecutorial development
effort in Haiti.

International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),

Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Assistant Manager, Haitian Police Development Project/
Consultant and Program Evaluator
January 1993
December 1995
- Shared day-to-day management operations of $30-million police development project
in Haiti.
- Developed annual project implementation plans; shaped and monitored program
design; conducted resource planning, management and logistical supervision.
- Researched and wrote analytical papers, including on law enforcement in U.S. Native
American communities; an extensive Lessons Learned analysis of previous ICITAP
programs, and feasibility studies.
Addis Ababa University
Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Lecturer on War Crimes and Justice
February 1995
- Taught United States Information Agency-funded class for 25 Ethiopian journalists on
how to cover war crimes trials.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
New York, New York
International Human Rights Lecturer
August 1993 March 1994
- With International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) to teach
the course Human Dignity in Policing (Human Rights/Community Relations) in
Bolivia, Colombia and El Salvador, as well as evaluate the program in Honduras and
Jamaica.
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Washington, D.C.
Professional Staff
July 1991
January 1993
- Covered all foreign relations issues and areas except East Asia for Senate Majority
Whip Alan Cranston (D-CA), writing speeches, researching, drafting bills and working
with the media, with extensive international travel.
- Participated in international peace negotiations with El Salvadoran military and leftist
guerrillas on key civil-military and administration-of-justice issues, providing key aid to
the two sides in order to move forward in negotiations.
- Researched, authored and shephered through Congress numerous bills on defense and
foreign policy introduced by Senator Cranston, several of which were signed into law
by President George H.W. Bush.
Office of Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Washington, D.C.
Senior Advisor for Defense and Foreign Policy
1990 June 1991

May

Covered defense and foreign relations issues; wrote speeches, drafted legislation, met
with high-level foreign dignitaries, and worked with U.S. and foreign press.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)

Washington, D.C.
Founding Director, Latin America and Caribbean Programs
& Civil-Military Projects
December
1987 May 1990
- Developed and led training missions, e.g. on police and security issues (Panama).
- Created, developed and administered democratic development programs (e.g. on civilmilitary relations).
- Served as project manager for a number of civic education and election monitoring
initiatives.
Washington Post & Newsweek
Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Special Correspondent
September 1982
October 1987
- Chief correspondent for five Newsweek international edition cover stories.
- Reported on political, social and economic issues in Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay,
and Argentina.

EDUCATION
ABD/Masters

U.S./Latin American History. Catholic University of America,

Washington, D.C.
Graduated: 5/2009

Masters

International Relations/International Economics. The Johns

Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington,
D.C. Graduated: 5/1981

Bachelors

Psychology. University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Graduated: 5/1976

LANGUAGES
Spanish Advanced
Novice/intermediate

Italian Intermediate

Portuguese