[1][2][3][4] Travers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Economics from the College of William & Mary.

Between 2013 and 2015, Travers served as the special assistant to the president and senior director for transnational threat integration and information sharing on the United States National Security Council.

He focused on government-wide improvements in border security and information sharing and applying lessons learned from U.S. government counterterrorism efforts to other transnational threats.

Travers served on the leadership team that stood up the Terrorist Threat Integration Center and the NCTC.

In October 2020, Travers signed a letter stating the Biden laptop story “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation[7]