She was a special agent, polygraph examiner, and interrogator with the United States Secret Service from 2000 to 2012.
[better source needed] Poumpouras was a co-host of the Bravo TV series, Spy Games.
She authored the memoir, Becoming Bulletproof (2020), and is an adjunct professor of criminal justice and criminology at the City University of New York.
[3] As a child, she and her brother spent most of their summers in Greece with extended family members.
[1] Poumpouras learned Spanish while in Mexico for a semester and French after studying in France.
[5] She interned for U.S. representative Carolyn McCarthy who suggested she consider joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation or United States Secret Service (USSS).