Jordan Hibbs is the Founder and CEO of Next in Nuclear Initiative, a organization dedicated to developing the next generation of nuclear leaders and strengthening the nuclear workforce. Through career development, leadership programming, mentorship, and community, Next in Nuclear Initiative helps nuclear professionals build the skills, relationships, and confidence to advance their careers and make a greater impact on the future of the field.

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Jordan is a senior leader in the nuclear enterprise with expertise in nuclear deterrence, nonproliferation, and counterproliferation policy. She has held leadership and policy positions across the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, as well as key overseas assignments. Her career spans nuclear policy, arms control, safeguards and security, strategic systems, and countering weapons of mass destruction.

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Jordan is an alum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Project on Nuclear Issues Mid-Career Cadre (2021-2024) and a former Arms Control Negotiation Academy Fellow (2021) through Harvard University. She is also a former member of New America's Nuclear Futures Working Group and former Board Member of Women in International Security DC (2020-2023) and the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (2018-2021).

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In 2022, Jordan launched the Jordan A. Hibbs Scholarship at her alma mater, Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, to support community college transfer students. In 2023, Arizona State University recognized her with its Distinguished Achievement Award for her career in public service.

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Jordan holds a Master of Science in Science and Technology Policy and a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University. She also holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from American University's Key Executive Leadership Program. In 2020, she received the Excellence in Service Honorary Award from the Office of Personnel Management.

Angie Sohn is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School concentrating in International and Global Affairs. Her academic and professional interests center on diplomacy and nonproliferation issues, with a regional focus on the Indo-Pacific. A Thomas R. Pickering Fellow, Angie previously interned with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Korean and Mongolian Affairs where she worked on security issues pertaining to the Korean peninsula. Her commitment to nuclear policy was shaped in part by her participation in the Hiroshima ICAN Academy during which she visited Hiroshima and heard firsthand testimonies from atomic bomb survivors. As a first-generation student, Angie is deeply committed to expanding access and representation within the nuclear and foreign policy field at-large. Prior to graduate school, Angie served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan and graduated from Colby College with a B.A. in Government and minor in East Asian Studies.