Courtney Totorica is originally from Bayport, NY and is married to CPT Julen Totorica. They have one daughter named Idoya. She will be entering Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service to pursue a graduate degree in Foreign Service. She hopes her research and studies will better enable her to serve abroad in South America to work with and strengthen local government institutions and civil society organizations to prevent, address and sanction cases of gender-based violence against women and girls.

A former military intelligence officer, Courtney Totorica served in the Active Duty Army for over six years. Her previous positions in the U.S. Army include: Senior and Deputy Intelligence Officer of a special operations aviation battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; Executive Officer of a military intelligence company at Fort Cavazos, Texas; and one combat deployment to Afghanistan where she served as the Lead Interrogations Analyst within a Joint-Task Force.

Courtney Totorica holds a B.S. in United States History from the United States Military Academy. Her studies focused on genocide and mass atrocity prevention which was also the topic of her senior thesis. As a result of her research, she was awarded the MAJ John Alexander Hottell III Memorial Award for excellence in writing in International History and the Beitler Ethics Award for authoring the most outstanding essay on issues of ethics and toleration related to the profession of arms.