She is the former[2] chief executive at Callaghan Innovation,[3] was an executive at Xerox in New York City, and a dual citizen of the United States and New Zealand.
She was raised in Palmerston North, New Zealand and received her secondary education at St Peter's College.
After surviving being a hostage, she provided the FBI with information that allowed British cleric, Abu Hamza, to be extradited to the United States to for his role in the kidnapping.
[5] She wrote a book about that affair: Kidnapped in Yemen: One Woman's Amazing Escape from Captivity (The Lyons Press, ISBN 978-1592287284).
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