
Tiffany
Polyak, CAMS
Tiffany is a project coordinator/researcher for the Global Thought Leadership team at ACAMS.
She assists the global subject matter experts on her team.
Tiffany earned her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Nonproliferation and
Terrorism Studies from Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in
May of 2021. Before ACAMS, Tiffany worked as a case manager with human
trafficking survivors, was a research intern at CWTI centering around
convergence points between wildlife trafficking, extremism, and other organized
crime, and began researching financial flows regarding domestic extremist
groups at ACTRI. She has also worked in AML compliance for a brokerage firm in
Chicago. Before obtaining her M.A., Tiffany received her Bachelor of Science
(B.S.) in Biology with a focus in molecular genetics from Indiana University.
Using this B.S., Tiffany originally was a research assistant at the James
Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) on the chemical and biological
weapons nonproliferation team during her time as a graduate student. Tiffany’s
research interests center around the illicit financial flows regarding the
crime-terror nexus.