Morwari Zafar

Dr. Morwari Zafar is an anthropologist and the founder of The Sentient Group, a research, education, and training consulting firm in Washington DC. She has worked in both the international development and defense sectors, focusing on the use of cultural knowledge in U.S. security force trainings. She served as a Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in 2016, and as a Fellow-in-Residence at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute in 2022, conducting research on gun rights activism and militias in Virginia. She has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oxford, a MA in anthropology from George Washington University, and a BA in English from the University of Puget Sound.