Michaela Mesquite

Ms. Michaela Mesquite has spent the past decade serving the United States Intelligence Community and currently serves National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, and Augmentation (AAA) initiative as a Partner Engagement Officer. In this role, she is at the forefront of the Agency’s effort to employ AAA capabilities to augment traditional operations and pave the way for the enterprise’s technological and cultural transformation to maintain GEOINT strategic advantage. 

In her previous roles Michaela has served as a Senior GEOINT Officer advising analytic modernization projects, with special attention to imagery analysis augmentation with computer vision and image processing, and held other partner engagement positions focused on the confluence of analytic tradecraft and technological modernization. Michaela began her career at NGA as an imagery analyst serving a variety of analytic missions, to include theatre deployment.

Ms. Mesquite did graduate work in Remote Sensing and GIS at Pennsylvania State University as an intelligence officer.  Prior to her NGA career she earned her master’s degree in International Relations at Boston College and two undergraduate degrees in International Studies and Political Science at the University of Washington.   

Michaela lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two young children.