Jennifer S. Bryson
Bryson spent two years in Egypt learning the Arabic language in between her M.A. and Ph.D.
Bryson is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta honor society. Bryson has described fruitless job searches, following earning her PhD, in the late 1990s, only to find that al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001 put her skills in demand. According to an article from the October 29, 2001 edition of the "Chronicle of Higher Education", Bryson started working for as a television journalist and researcher in 2000. She worked for the "PBS NewsHour" and CBS's "48 Hours". Bryson worked at the U.S. Embassies in Egypt and Yemen in 2002. Bryson served as an interrogator in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, from 2004–2006. She managed a counter-terrorism analysis team. Her last position with the DoD was as the lead Action Officer for countering ideological support to terrorism within the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Support to Public Diplomacy. After her public service Bryson became the Director of the Islam and Civil Society Project at the Witherspoon Institute. She was previously a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Engagement. In August 2010 the "Washington Post" published an op-ed by Bryson, 
counseling tolerance for Muslims, after a Florida pastor had called on Americans to burn Qurans. The "Christian Post" described Bryson as a "Christian scholar". In 2009 Bryson was on a panelist in a dialogue between evangelicals and Muslims. In September 2011 Bryson was a presenter at a conference on the role of non-Muslim scholars in Islamic Studies. Her translation of "Anti-Semitism Among Islamists in Germany," a 2019 report by the German government, was published by the Hudson Institute. Her translation of the 1970 lecture "Trusting the Church" by Catholic writer Ida Friederika Görres and Fr. Joseph Ratzinger's 1971 Eulogy for Ida Friederike Görres were published in 2020. Bryson is the founder of "Let All Play", a project of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture that works to discourage the use of rainbows or other pro-LGBT symbols at soccer matches. She also serves on the "Advisory Board" (although she is not featured on its Website) of Canavox. Canavox is a reading group run by the Witherspoon Institute which promotes man-woman marriage, with a reading list featuring several anti-LGBT titles.
Careers
She previously worked at the Witherspoon Institute, and now works for their Canavox group as an advisor, as well as her own anti-LGBT group, Let All Play. She spent the years 2004–2006 as an interrogator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps. Bryson's PhD was in Arabic and Islamic studies, from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.