Grace has a master's degree in Information and Cybersecurity from U.C. Berkeley, a bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity from CBC, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from WSU. She served in the U.S. Navy as a Nuclear Machinist Mate Engineering Lab Technician for 3 years. She worked on cyber research for cyber resiliency at Cypherpath before transitioning to PNNL. She's been at PNNL for over 5 years, working in the National Security Directorate on various DOE and DHS projects, performing cyber physical operations, data analysis, threat hunting, and resiliency research to protect the grid. She's participated in EMISIG for the past 5 years, starting out as a member of the UAS working group subcommittee and writing the original "Applying UAS to Emergency Response" whitepaper. Eventually, she became the chair of the UAS working group subcommittee and then moved up to lead the SEMTECH working group, where she's helped iterate new versions of the whitepaper to keep up with the changing landscape of UAS, and participated in PNNL/Hanford emergency response training exercises.

Subcommittee Chair