[2] She founded the now-defunct Council on Global Security think-tank, and the Threat Knowledge Group consulting firm, which provided counter-terrorism training for the U.S. government and military.

[5][6] She has also been a contributor to Breitbart News, and a co-editor of the book Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism with Patrick Sookhdeo.

[5][6] Prior to her appointment in the Trump administration, Gorka has advocated for an "ideological war" against Islamists, and supported legislation sponsored by Rep. Michele Bachmann to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, which would extend to United States Muslim organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

[10] She then ended funding from the Countering Violent Extremism Task Force (CVE) to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalize white supremacists, as well as to the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

[7] She became press secretary of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in June 2019, but left her position in August in order to spend more time with her family.