Elizabeth Graham had a Top Secret Clearance while in her senior year of high school, and immediately after graduation she worked undercover with the CIA. Then she joined the SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center (FSRC) for 12 years, of which 8 years she studied Russia and Russian life. She managed the largest Russian-language military, technical and intelligence library in the U.S. She began to travel to the Soviet Union and then became one of the very few Americans to move to the USSR. She lived under Communism in the Soviet Union, then Russia, and Central Asia long enough to become bi-cultural - she became Russian. Her first-hand knowledge and understanding of life in a communist or dictatorship country is shared with Americans in her bestselling ebook on Amazon called From Democracy to Democrazy published in 2023. Her latest book is called Survival and is a collection of her Substack messages along with other well-known authors such as Craig Unger, Dr. Sanford Mayer, David Andelman, Charlie Sykes, and Steven Beschloss.

She has held senior nonprofit management positions (Chief of Party) and consulting jobs in strategic places like Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, all of the former Soviet countries (15 countries including the Baltics, Central Asia, and Ukraine), Pakistan, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Peru and many other locations.

Her Substack is: egraham.substack.com