War Game Panelist Biographies
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War Game Panelist Biographies

Trenae Nuri is the host of the City Cast Philly — the daily news podcast about the city you love (and maybe sometimes hate?) and the Philadelphians who are working hard every day to make this place better. Each weekday morning, Trenae chats with people all across Philly's diverse neighborhoods about issues that matter to you. Before she hosted this podcast, Trenae was a producer at The Wall Street Journal, WHYY’s Morning Edition and Radio Times. When she’s not hosting, Trenae mentors young journalists around the country.

Seth Bluestein has served as City Commissioner – one of three members of the Board of Elections in charge of election operations and voter registration for the City of Philadelphia – since February 2022. Prior to serving as Commissioner, Seth was Chief Deputy Commissioner for former City Commissioner Al Schmidt. Seth began working in the Office of the City Commissioners in 2012 as a Deputy Commissioner before being promoted to Chief Deputy Commissioner in 2017. From 2018 through 2021, Seth also served as the department’s Chief Integrity Officer. 

Gwen Camp has decades of experience in government and the public sector, including time as the Chief of Staff of the Pennsylvania State Treasury and State Director for Senator Robert Casey of Pennsylvania. She received her Masters in Public Administration from Harvard, and currently leads her own public affairs firm, which specializes in coalition building, crisis management, national security, and communications. She is also a senior advisor to the non-profit organization Team Democracy.

Retired Major General Linda Singh served in the Maryland National Guard from 1981-2019, culminating with her appointment to Adjutant General, Joint Force Headquarters. Previously, she served as the Commander of the Maryland Army National Guard, where she helped lead the response to the 2015 Baltimore riots. During her time in the National Guard, she was deployed to Kosovo and Afghanistan.

In 2005, Jack Tomarchio was appointed the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis for the George W. Bush administration; in 2007 he was promoted to Deputy Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Operations. In his work at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Tomarchio was the primary senior official in charge of the intelligence directorate’s partnership with state and local governments to build a domestic intelligence sharing network. He also worked closely with other components of the federal intelligence community.