FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Serves as Treasurer of the Board

Elana DeLozier is a university educator and international political analyst specializing in Yemen, the Gulf States, and nuclear proliferation. She founded The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs to make international subject matter expertise more accessible to all. Over her nearly two decade career, she has been a senior fellow at a think tank in Washington D.C., where she regularly engaged with senior U.S., UN, and foreign government leaders as well as key stakeholders from all parties in Yemen; a political analyst and educator in the Middle East, including six years in the Gulf and two years in Lebanon; a counterterrorism analyst in New York City; and a senior research assistant at the Brookings Institution. She currently teaches graduate seminars at the University of Virginia and has previously taught at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She completed her graduate studies at Virginia Tech.

PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dan Myers is Co-Founder & Managing Director of 42Phi Ventures, a Silicon Valley based VC firm investing in Seed to Series A companies. Previously, Dan was the Founding Director of Runway, an innovation hub in San Francisco where he led startup incubation yielding more than 50 exits in 5 years. Additionally, Dan has designed and managed nationally recognized startup accelerator programs, supported Fortune 100 companies to identify, engage, and acquire startups, and helped build one of the largest startup competitions in the world with finalists pitching to Sir Richard Branson.

BOARD MEMBER

Gary Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis and is the author of All Fall Down, a personal history of the Iranian Revolution, and October Surprise, an investigative account of the Reagan campaign to interfere with the 1980 presidential election, in addition to many other edited books and articles dealing with U.S. Middle East policy. Mr. Sick is a captain (ret.) in the U.S. Navy, with service in the Persian Gulf, North Africa and the Mediterranean. He was the deputy director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, where he was responsible for programs relating to U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Sick has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, where he has been Senior Research Scholar, adjunct professor of international affairs, and former director of the Middle East Institute (2000-2003). He taught in the School of International and Public Affairs, where he was voted one of the top five teachers. He is a member (emeritus) of the board of Human Rights Watch and founding chair of its advisory committee on the Middle East and North Africa. He was the founding director of Gulf/2000, an international research project on political, economic and security developments in the Persian Gulf, conducted at Columbia University from 1993, with support from the W. Alton Jones, Ford, MacArthur, Carnegie, and Soros foundations and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In September 2024, Gulf/2000 was transferred to The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs.

BOARD MEMBER

Ambassador (ret.) Barbara Bodine is a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. A member of the Senior Foreign Service, her over 30-year career was spent working primarily on or in the broader Persian Gulf region, including two tours in Baghdad, deputy chief of mission in Kuwait, and ambassador to Yemen. She also served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Director of East African Affairs. After leaving State, she has been a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Wilhem Fellow at MIT, and worked for seven years at Princeton teaching and directing their Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She currently teaches courses on Leadership and Crisis Management, Negotiations and Mediation, and on the Arab Gulf States. She is an avid albeit rather slow cyclist.

BOARD MEMBER

Serves as Secretary of the Board

Nicole Price is an education marketing subject matter expert with 15 years experience in the field. Over her career, Nicole has launched, relaunched, and reimagined numerous targeted education programs that have reached over 1.5 million learners and 500,000 educators around the world. She is currently the Senior Global Marketing Manager of Amazon Web Services’ Academic Education Programs.

A strong advocate for the revitalization of small towns throughout rural Appalachia, Nicole is also co-founder and Chief People Officer of Eartha Developers, LLC – an organization focused on downtown commercial development projects resulting in job creation, economic development, and a renewed entrepreneurial energy in historic spaces. She resides in Virginia with her husband and five children.