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# Military & Veteran Affairs Reporting Guide

A project of Military Veterans in Journalism

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://milvetreporting.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [A reporter’s guide to embedding with military forces](https://milvetreporting.org/a-reporters-guide-to-embedding-with-military-forces/) - Journalists and historians have borne firsthand witness to military operations for eons. During the Vietnam War era, media has effectively unfettered access to military operations. Access to the U.S. military during the 1991 Gulf War, on the other hand, was tightly controlled. The 2001-2015 Global War on Terror (GWOT) brought about a new approach by
- [Trauma Reporting](https://milvetreporting.org/trauma-reporting/) - When I started in journalism, I hated writing about trauma — hated the doorbell rings and phone calls that had to seem so intrusive, so ambulance-chasing. But after a while, I started to notice something: If I was kind, if I offered a chance at truth or remembrance, people seemed genuinely grateful to tell their
- [Cultural competence for reporting on Veterans](https://milvetreporting.org/heroes-victims-messiahs/) - Heroes, Victims, Messiahs About seven percent. That’s the number of Americans who, in 2017, said they believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That’s also roughly the number of Americans in 2018 who served on active duty in the military at some point in their lives. That means roughly 93 percent of Americans have
- [Do the Coverage](https://milvetreporting.org/do-the-coverage/) - I started my military journalism career with an internship at Fort Knox, Kentucky, writing about military service members and their experiences in uniform. When telling their stories, I used to say, “These guys want to be here, and that’s why I love telling their stories.” While I wasn’t trying to exclude women in that statement,

## Pages

- [Home](https://milvetreporting.org/) - Military & Veteran AffairsReporting Guidethe premier resource for journalists covering military and veteran issues Reporting TipsReporting Tips provides advice from seasoned reporters on how to improve military and veteran affairs coverage. Check it out → Expert DirectoryThe Expert Directory provides a database of people who can provide insight on a range of issues related to
- [Ask AI](https://milvetreporting.org/ask-ai/)
- [Veteran Showcase](https://milvetreporting.org/veterans/) - This showcase of military veterans and their journalism demonstrates the stellar work by our community. In Memoriam Contribute to this projectDid we forget someone? Submit A Suggestion
- [Reporting Tips](https://milvetreporting.org/tips/) - November 11, 2022Do the CoverageRead More November 11, 2022Cultural competence for reporting on VeteransRead More November 11, 2022Trauma ReportingRead More November 11, 2022A reporter’s guide to embedding with military forcesRead More
- [About](https://milvetreporting.org/about/) - AboutThanks to generous support from News Corp Giving, the non-profit organization Military Veterans in Journalism has created a range of resources for reporters covering military and veteran issues through an online resource portal. For this website, MVJ built a style guide to help reporters provide more accurate and more nuanced reporting on military and veteran
- [Methodology](https://milvetreporting.org/methodology/) - MethodologyThe Military & Veteran Affairs Reporting Guide was compiled from a year-long research process during which Military Veterans in Journalism gathered data from various community surveys, interviews and secondary analyses. Military Veterans in Journalism put together its style guide by consulting with dozens of news and media professionals, as well as gathering feedback from the
- [Military & Veteran Affairs Reporting Guide](https://milvetreporting.org/guide/) - Military & Veteran Affairs Reporting Guide The Military & Veterans Affairs Reporting Guide helps reporters provide more accurate and more nuanced reporting on military and veteran issues. See something you don’t think is right? Have a suggestion for how we could improve? Share it with us on our community feedback form located here! Introduction to
- [Submit a Suggestion](https://milvetreporting.org/submit/)
- [Cultural competence for reporting on Veterans](https://milvetreporting.org/tips/cultural-competence-for-reporting-on-veterans/) - By: Scott Bourque About seven percent. That’s the number of Americans who, in 2017, said they believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That’s also roughly the number of Americans in 2018 who served on active duty in the military at some point in their lives. That means roughly 93
- [Learn How to Write Essays by Heart](https://milvetreporting.org/learn-how-to-write-essays-by-heart/) - Writing essays isn't too difficult, but you will need to be consistent in the way you take action. Doing the same thing over again won't produce excellent results. That is the reason why the majority noun checker online of pupils don't make good grades in their high school and college years.The only reason why most
- [Expert Directory](https://milvetreporting.org/experts/) - This directory of experts includes people who can provide insight on a range of issues related to military and veteran affairs. Contribute to this projectDid we forget someone? Submit A Suggestion
- [Reporting Tips 3](https://milvetreporting.org/tips/reporting-tips-3/) - Military and Veterans November 11, 2022A reporter’s guide to embedding with military forcesby Ben Brody Military and Veterans November 11, 2022Trauma Reportingby Kelly Kennedy Military and Veterans November 11, 2022Cultural competence for reporting on Veteransby Scott Bourque Military and Veterans November 11, 2022Do the Coverageby Noelle Wiehe
- [Reporting Tips 2](https://milvetreporting.org/tips/reporting-tips-2/) - Do the Coverageby Noelle Wiehe Cultural competence for reporting on Veteransby Scott Bourque Trauma Reportingby Kelly Kennedy A reporter’s guide to embedding with military forcesby Ben Brody Nothing found.

## Members

- [Meta J. Mereday](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/meta-j-mereday/) - Meta participated in a ground-breaking media immersion about part of the Military Journalists (MilJo) Experience in 2012 that included a diverse group of journalists who experienced military life through an immersive engagement ranging from morning maneuvers with new recruits to graduation ceremonies for embarking troops at Forts Leavenworth and Leonard Wood. She is currently a
- [Bryan Rollins](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bryan-rollins/) - Bryan Rollins serves Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) as the director of the Warriors to Work® program. In this position, Bryan leads the nonprofit’s career counseling efforts to help warriors and their families find their next careers in civilian life. Bryan first joined WWP in 2015 as a regional director of the Alumni program. In 2016,
- [Kelly Finn Stormer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kelly-finn-stormer/) - Kelly is the Chief Operating Officer where she is responsible for the team, programs, communications, technology, strategy development and execution. Formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Warrior Gateway, she is passionate about continuing to serve the military community. Kelly graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Arts and was commissioned as a Surface Warfare
- [Jose Ramos](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jose-ramos/) - Jose Ramos serves as WWP’s Vice President of Government and Community Relations and has been helping post-9/11 veterans as a member of the WWP team since 2018. Prior to joining WWP, Jose served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the Special Assistant for Constituent Inquiries and as an appointed Commissioner on President
- [Lourdes Tiglao](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lourdes-tiglao/) - Lourdes is a US Air Force veteran and an accomplished business, nonprofit management, advocacy, and healthcare professional with extensive experience in leadership roles in the military, healthcare, nonprofit, and tech sector. She builds relationships across nations, NGO's / nonprofit organizations, and various industry sectors and counts stakeholder management, analytical and organizational skills, and scrappiness a
- [Abby Peterson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/abby-peterson/) - Strategic communicator, dedicated to enhancing organizational effectiveness with an established track record managing and building programs and influential campaigns from the ground-up. Proven servant-leader versed in analyzing organizational structure and behavior to design and implement better outcomes in seasons of major organizational change. After managing the rigorous demands of crisis communications, media relations and community
- [Chelsey Simoni](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/chelsey-simoni/) - Published clinical researcher, Veteran advocate and educator, current student enrolled in Masters Degree in Science of Nursing and Public Health program, focusing on global population wellness while conducting theoretical and systemic evidence-based research in post-9/11 veteran healthcare concerns. Current research nurse lead on monoclonal antibodies in COV-19 patients in the center for infectious diseases.
- [Lindsay Church](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lindsay-church/) - Lindsay Church (they/them) is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Minority Veterans of America, a non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to creating an equitable and just world for the minority veteran community – veterans of color, women, LGBTQ, and (non)religious minorities. Lindsay has nearly a decade of experience rooted in veteran’s advocacy and grassroots organizing. They
- [Abbie Patterson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/abbie-patterson/) - Abbie Patterson is the Deputy Director of Operations for We the Veterans and the daughter and granddaughter of a veteran. She recieved her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Public Relations at Jacksonville State University and her Master's of Public Administration degree at the University of Colorado Denver. Abbie focused on veteran and environmental policy
- [Kristofer Goldsmith](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kristofer-goldsmith/) - Kristofer Goldsmith is the CEO of Sparverius, a veteran-owned open-source intelligence firm specializing in the detection and disruption of today’s greatest threats against democracy: disinformation campaigns and domestic extremism. Kris is the founder and president of High Ground Veterans Advocacy, a 501c3 not-for-profit, which partners with military and Veterans Service Organizations to train veterans to
- [David Albright](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-albright/) - Dr. David L. Albright is a University Distinguished Research Professor and the Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health Research at The University of Alabama. He is committed to public policy and administrative leadership aimed at improving the health, well-being, safety, and prosperity of vulnerable populations, rural and underserved communities, and our country’s military
- [Richard Brookshire](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/richard-brookshire/) - Richard Brookshire is the Co-Founder of the Black Veterans Project. As a storyteller, Richard leverages a background in political communications, integrated marketing, digital advocacy and documentary filmmaking to deliver strategic and dynamic social-impact campaigns. He's previously served as Director of Communications for Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America and was the first person of color
- [Jordie Kern](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jordie-kern/) - At 7 Eagle Group, our mission is to connect talented Military Veterans and their spouses with businesses that value the sheer grit and experience they bring to America’s workforce. Veterans and their spouses are born from the world’s greatest workforce -the US Military. Their unwavering dedication to being the best of the best, their extensive
- [Kevin Johnson, Hearst](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kevin-johnson-hearst/) - “I spent 20 years in the Army and Army Reserve, where I learned respect, and a strong work ethic. When I get a resume from someone with prior military experience, it immediately tells me a lot about that person’s dedication, perseverance, and drive to move forward. I’m proud to work for an organization that understands
- [Dr. Daniel Milton](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dr-daniel-milton/) - Daniel Milton is Director of Research at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences. He has authored peer-review articles and monographs related to terrorism and counterterrorism using both quantitative and qualitative methods. His published work has appeared a number of venues, including
- [Andrew Mines](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-mines/) - Andrew Mines is a Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, where he helps lead PoE's efforts on the Capitol Hill Siege and Nexus projects. He is the audio editor of the podcast Mosul and the Islamic State, an Investigator with the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE), and a contributor to the
- [Victor Bohm](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/victor-bohm/) - Victor joined IAVA in 2016 – both as a member and a staff member while pursuing his graduate degree at Columbia University where he provided basic back-office assistance to the development department team members. Three years later, Victor took over as Director of Major Gifts where he played an integral role on IAVA’s development team
- [Phoebe Gavin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/phoebe-gavin-2/) - Phoebe Gavin began her media career in New York City as a writer for Upworthy. She spent time at ThinkProgress and Quartz, working on social media, search, and audience development. In March 2021 she left to work full-time on her career coaching business.
- [Rye Barcott](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rye-barcott/) - Rye Barcott is CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan organization he co-founded with David Gergen and other veterans to elect a next-generation veterans in the U.S. and create a more effective and less polarized government. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and co-founded Carolina for Kibera, a non-governmental organization that invests in talented youth
- [Sam Kille](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sam-kille/) - Sam Kille brings more than two decades of nonprofit communications and leadership experience to his role as Director of Communications. He has secured media coverage with print and broadcast outlets around the world, and has appeared on several national programs, including CNN American Morning; Wake Up With Al; MSNBC Live; FOX News Live; Katie Couric;
- [Dan Clare](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dan-clare/) - Dan Clare, a Marine Corps veteran of the Persian Gulf era and an Air Force veteran of the war in Iraq, was appointed chief communications and outreach officer for the more than 1 million-member DAV in August 2019. Clare first joined DAV’s professional staff in November 2004 as senior communications specialist in the National Communications
- [John Torres](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/john-torres/) - John Torres is NBC News/MSNBC senior medical correspondent and an emergency room physician. Torres’s reporting covers a wide range of health-related issues across all of NBC’s broadcast, cable, and digital platforms; he has been covering the coronavirus pandemic since its beginning. A graduate of the Air Force Academy, he is a veteran of the United
- [David Tenenbaum](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-tenenbaum/) - David Tenenbaum is an Air Force veteran, the founder of Honor Media, a nonprofit focused on the veteran community, and is dedicated to helping veterans, particularly during transition. He’s recently served as a Secretary of the VA appointee to a Federal Advisory Committee and remains active in veteran advocacy and the veteran community through volunteering
- [Kyle Rempfer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kyle-rempfer/) - Kyle Rempfer is an editor and reporter who has covered combat operations, criminal cases, foreign military assistance and training accidents. Before entering journalism, Kyle served in U.S. Air Force Special Tactics and deployed to Paktika Province, Afghanistan, and Baghdad, Iraq.
- [Dr. Jeffrey Blevins](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dr-jeffrey-blevins/) - Dr. Blevins is a Professor in the Department of Journalism (51%); and School of Public and International Affairs (49%). His Scholarship is grounded in U.S. telecommunication law and policy and engages critical political economy theory. His recent book, Social Media, Social Justice, and the Political Economy of Online Networks (University of Cincinnati Press, 2022) explores
- [Geoffrey Ingersoll](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/geoffrey-ingersoll/) - Multicapable, experienced media professional determined to produce compelling, persuasive and viral content. A digital savvy journalist who excels under pressure and holds 10+ years experience writing, reporting and producing. Adaptive in the field and the office; team-oriented but capable of operating independently. *Expert in managing multimedia, digital communication – Expert at video, photo shooting &
- [Robert Reid](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/robert-reid/) - Experienced Senior Managing Editor with a demonstrated history of working in the newspapers industry. Skilled in Field Production, Headline Writing, Breaking News, Video Journalism, and Journalism. Strong media and communication professional. Veteran of the United States Army.
- [Sara Samora](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sara-samora/) - Sara Samora is a Marine Corps veteran and the veterans reporter for Stars and Stripes. A native Texan, she previously worked at the Houston Business Journal and the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung. She also serves on the boards of Military Veterans in Journalism and the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals.
- [Phoebe Gavin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/phoebe-gavin/) - Phoebe Gavin began her media career in New York City as a writer for Upworthy. She spent time at ThinkProgress and Quartz, working on social media, search, and audience development. In March 2021 she left to work full-time on her career coaching business.
- [Chase Millsap](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/chase-millsap/) - Chase Millsap is a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army Special Forces. He served three combat tours with the 1st Marine Division in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. He then served five years as a U.S. Army Green Beret leading counter-terrorism missions to South West Asia. He recently produced the
- [Brian Weeden](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/brian-weeden/) - Dr. Brian Weeden is the Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation and has nearly two decades of professional experience in space operations and policy. Dr. Weeden conducts research on space debris, global space situational awareness, space traffic management, protection of space assets, and space governance. Dr. Weeden also organizes national and international workshops
- [Deborah Lee James](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/deborah-lee-james/) - From December 2013 through January 2017, Deborah served as the 23rd Secretary of the United States Air Force with responsibility for 660,000 military and civilian personnel and a budget of nearly $140 billion. She was the second woman to ever lead a military service in the United States. Prior to this role, she served as
- [Michael O’Hanlon](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-ohanlon/) - Michael E. O'Hanlon is a senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He directs the Center on Security, Strategy and Technology, as well as the Defense Industrial Base working group, and will
- [Gregory F. Treverton](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/gregory-f-treverton/) - Gregory F. Treverton is Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. He served as chairman of the National Intelligence Council from September 2014 to January 2017. Earlier, he directed the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security, and before that, its Intelligence Policy Center and
- [Joslyn Fleming](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/joslyn-fleming/) - Joslyn Fleming is a defense policy researcher at the RAND corporation where she specializes in military logistics, with a particular interest in how to plan for logistics in future operating concepts. She also contributes to strategic readiness, personnel, and intelligence work. She has led multiple research projects to include a project addressing the effects of delamination
- [Jonathan Wong](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jonathan-wong/) - Jonathan Wong is associate director of RAND Arroyo Center's Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program, a policy researcher at RAND Corporation, and a professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on the role of new technologies and operational concepts and processes in shaping how militaries fight. He also contributes to other force design and
- [Casey Woods](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/casey-woods/) - Through FORGE, Casey Woods works from within the gun owner community to catalyze leadership and collaboratively create innovative initiatives to prevent the illegal and unsafe use of guns. FORGE’S strategies are focused on tapping into gun owners’ protective motivation by empowering them with new knowledge, tools and practices to prevent suicide and gun crime, contributing
- [Aimee Johnson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/aimee-johnson/) - I strongly believe in spreading hope and working with people through pain and crisis to help them find recovery. I am passionate about advancing firearm suicide prevention. Crisis can pass. Our lives are worth living. I have seen countless people survive crisis and experience the miracles of recovery and newfound hope. Kids and youth need
- [Abby Malchow](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/abby-malchow/) - Chief Petty Officer Abby Malchow joined the U.S. Navy in August 2001. She was in boot camp when the events of 9/11 occurred. Malchow deployed twice with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Forty in 2004 and 2006 and deployed to Iraq in 2006. While in Iraq, she led a senior, all-male team as a junior Logistics
- [David Jobes](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-jobes/) - The research focus of the CUA Suicide Prevention Lab is centered on clinical risk assessment (using both quantitative and qualitative methods) with different suicidal populations in different clinical settings. In recent years we have become particularly focused on clinical interventions for suicidal patients. My group at CUA has developed a novel therapeutic approach called the
- [Duane France](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/duane-france/) - Duane France is the Director of Veteran Services at Family Care Center and the Executive Director of the Colorado Veterans Health and Wellness Agency, an affiliated 501(c)3 Nonprofit. He is also the founder of Head Space and Timing, a multimedia organization dedicated to changing the way that service members, veterans, their families, and their communities
- [James Blair](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/james-blair/) - Dr. Blair grew up in rural Connecticut before earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of Maryland and medical degree at Drexel University College of Medicine. Confronted by the events of September 11th, 2001, while living in the Washington, DC area, Dr. Blair accepted the Health Professions Scholarship and joined the Army going into medical school.
- [Janice Agazio](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/janice-agazio/) - Dr. Janice Agazio is currently Associate Dean, the Director of the PhD and DNP programs at The Catholic University of America in the School of Nursing and an Ordinary Professor. She retired from active duty in the Army Nurse Corps after twenty-two years of service following her assignment as Assistant Chief of Nursing Research Service
- [Neera Tewari-Singh](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/neera-tewari-singh/) - With an extensive background in molecular biology and toxicology, the long-term goal of Dr. Neera Tewari-Singh’s research is to pursue both basic and translational research to develop countermeasures/targeted therapies against the chemical threat agents and environmental exposures (including vesicating agents, urticants and corrosive agents, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) that can cause harmful effects/mass casualties as
- [Gavin Phillipson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/gavin-phillipson/) - Professor Gavin Phillipson is based in the Bristol Law School. As an expert in media law, he has explored media intrusion and the right to privacy from the media, along with the creation of media codes of practice, regulation of online speech, and the online propaganda of terrorism. Among his core interests is how the Human
- [Scott Munro](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/scott-munro/) - For more than 25 years, Dr. Scott Munro has been developing new aerospace technologies. His work has included test-cell acoustics, advanced resonant liner research, cutting torch technology, and jet and airframe noise. Prior to joining Southern Utah University in 2015, Dr. Munro worked at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at China Lake, California. His
- [Nicholas Canfield](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/nicholas-canfield/) - Nicholas R. Brown is the Director of the Bioethics Minor and Clinical Faculty in the Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Northwestern College (IA) and a joint M.A. in International Peace Conflict Resolution and Theological Studies from American University and Wesley Theological Seminary respectively. His doctorate in Christian
- [Andrew Lubin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-lubin/) - Andrew Lubin is a Bucks County, Pa. author and defense analyst who writes on current military issues and international relations. His work appears regularly in such professional magazines as “Leatherneck”, “The Gazette,” “Jane’s Intelligence Review”, and USA TODAY Magazine, and recently served as the military consultant to Stephens Media Group for their “Valor Series” and wrote
- [John Gordon IV](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/john-gordon-iv/) - John Gordon IV is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. He joined RAND in 1997 after a 20-year U.S. Army career and has since participated in and led numerous studies for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Departments of the Army and Navy. Gordon has authored or coauthored several RAND
- [Peter Campbell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/peter-campbell/) - Peter Campbell, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science in Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of two books: “Military Realism: The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army” and “Farewell to the Marshal Statesman: The Decline of Military Experience Among Politicians and its Consequences.” Campbell
- [Carl Castro](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/carl-castro/) - Carl A. Castro is an associate professor, also serving as the director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families. Castro joined the faculty in 2013 after serving 33 years in the U.S. Army, where he obtained the rank of colonel. Castro began his military career as an infantryman in 1981.
- [VR Small](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/vr-small/) - VR Small is the Founder and Executive Director for the Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center, a national initiative launched in southern Dallas to help women veteran-owned businesses scale for success. Through her participation in Stand-To, VR is working to enhance the impact of the "Moments that Matter" research project designed to provide a local report on
- [Garrett Cathcart](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/garrett-cathcart/) - Garrett Cathcart currently serves as the Executive Director of Mission Roll Call, a veteran nonprofit that provides veterans a powerful and unified voice in our communities and leaders. Garrett graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2004 and the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University in 2018. Through his participation
- [Dylan Tete](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dylan-tete/) - Dylan Tête is the Executive Director and founder of Bastion Community of Resilience. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Systems Engineering at West Point, as well as a Master’s in Public Health at the LSU School of Public Health. During a combat tour in Iraq as second-in-command of an Infantry company, Dylan
- [Kevin Walton](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kevin-walton/) - Kevin Walton is a USAF Veteran who resides in El Segundo, CA with his wife, Romy (also a USAF veteran), and their two daughters. He is a longtime employee of the Boeing Company, where he works as a Systems Engineer. Kevin is a graduate of Excelsior College and the Defense Language Institute, and holds multiple
- [Brian Thompson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/brian-thompson/) - Brian Thompson is the Manager of Military and Veteran Programs at Lockheed Martin. Previously, Brian was the Management and Program Analyst for the U.S. Department of Education, where he led the Department’s Military Affairs Team. Through Stand-To, Brian served as the U.S. Department of Education’s subject matter expert on various federal initiatives and programs that
- [LTC Jack Pagano](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ltc-jack-pagano/) - Jack Pagano is a retired U. S. Army lieutenant colonel, and the COO of Shamshad TV, an over-the air and satellite television channel in Afghanistan
- [Meaghan Mobbs](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/meaghan-mobbs/) - Meaghan Mobbs, M.A., MPhil is a West Point graduate, Afghanistan Veteran, and former Army Captain. A clinical psychology PhD candidate and Predoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, her research and work revolves around better understanding the transition off active duty, the heterogeneity of the Veteran experience, and societal impacts of an all-volunteer force. She is a
- [Jeremy Valdez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeremy-valdez-2/) - Chief Warrant Officer Jeremy Valdez entered the U.S. Army on March 28th, 1998, and attended Infantry Basic and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He attended the Special Forces Assessment and Selection course, and was selected to be an 18B Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. In 2002, he finished airborne training and training in the
- [Lauren Augustine](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lauren-augustine-2/) - As the Vice President of Government Affairs, Lauren advocates on behalf of student veterans, their families, and military-connected students to empower them to, through, and beyond higher education. Since joining the team in 2018, she has helped champion several legislative and regulatory changes in support of SVA’s mission. She previously worked as a senior legislative
- [William Lebron](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/william-lebron/) - Strategic and goal-oriented leader with extensive expertise and a proven track record successfully developing and leading teams to deliver year over year business growth. History of success nurturing and developing long term relationships that center around company solution selling, enabling growth, prosperity and profitability while meeting client needs.
- [Jason Mihalik](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jason-mihalik/) - Jason Mihalik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science. He is the Co-Director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, and also serves as Affiliate Faculty at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center in the TBI focus area. Jason teaches courses in Biomechanics (EXSS 385) and Undergraduate
- [Umar Latif](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/umar-latif/) - Umar Latif, MD is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology with board certification in General Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine. He was selected as a George W. Bush Institute Scholar as part of the 2021 Stand-To Veteran Leadership program in service of
- [Quincy Harper](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/quincy-harper/) - Quincy Harper Sr. decided that San Antonio felt like home after being stationed here between 2000 and 2003 during part of his 24-year career in the U.S. Air Force. After he retired from the military in 2016, he worked at a couple of different local companies, including a property management firm, but nothing felt quite
- [Melissa Stirling](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/melissa-stirling/) - Melissa Stirling is the Director of Military, Campus and Youth Programs at Hilton. She is responsible for all facets of Hilton integrated military strategy, the largest of which is hiring 30,000 veterans and their family members by the end of 2020. She works with all areas of Hilton’s business to leverage assets and resources to
- [Leah Christensen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/leah-christensen/) - Creating programs and processes for the Program of General Caregiver Support Services, part of VA’s Caregiver Support Program, for VA facilities across the nation. Finding innovative solutions to meet the needs of caregivers who care for our nation’s Veterans. Integrating inclusive care across VA, helping healthcare teams to embrace, include and empower caregivers as partners
- [Lauren Postler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lauren-postler/) - Following in the footsteps of a family dedicated to military and spiritual service, Lauren strives to apply the principles of servant leadership in all her endeavors. With more than 15 years of experience in strategic planning, change management, capacity building and collaborations for nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 businesses alike, Lauren brings a wealth of
- [Julie Kangas](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/julie-kangas/) - My name is Dr. Julie Kangas, and I am a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in San Diego, California. I specialize in supporting women who feel overwhelmed in their lives. Your life and your needs are constantly changing. I believe it is the journey of a lifetime to learn to live in your
- [Joe Bello](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/joe-bello/) - NYC veterans advocate and leader Joe Bello was born in Queens, NY. Joe served in the U.S. Navy from 1984-1995, with duty aboard the USS South Carolina, USS Nimitz and USS Mahlon S. Tisdale. He has been active in our community ever since, serving and giving voice to vets of all generations. Joe is currently
- [Jeremy Nelson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeremy-nelson/) - Researcher with strong translational science abilities, skilled at identifying potential markets and additional indications, funding opportunities and teaming arrangements (particularly with the Department of Defense), and strategies to further develop bench-level findings into marketable products. Extensive background in human performance, neuromodulation, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and neurophysiologic biomarker characterization, particularly in US military and veteran
- [Dennis Miller](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dennis-miller/) - Established and maintains a business league dedicated to promoting the common economic interests of all commercial enterprises in the military affiliated community. Covering Philadelphia, Delaware, Bucks, Chester and Montgomery counties, the VetChamberPHL provides services, advocacy, and leadership within the business community, focusing on the needs of businesses owned and operated by current and former service
- [Jesse Tossetti](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jesse-tossetti/) - Experienced Outreach Director with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Skilled in Customer Service, Team Building, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, and Research. Strong community and social services professional with a Master of Science - MS focused in Human Resources Management and Services from the University of Southern California.
- [Jay Garcia](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jay-garcia/) - Jay Garcia brings over 18 years of human resources and sales experience to Fortinet, having spent the last 15 years recruiting, consulting, coaching, counseling, and mentoring individuals and groups within several types of organizations, civilian and military. Prior to Fortinet, Jay supported recruiting, curriculum development, corporate and personal branding, training and development, and sales support
- [Frank Goertner](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/frank-goertner/) - Frank Goertner, EMBA ’17 is serving double duty as both a Smith alum and a Smith employee! He recently joined the Smith School as Director of Military and Veteran Affairs in August of 2018, just one year after graduating from the business school himself. After earning an MA in International Relations from the University of
- [Derren Burrell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/derren-burrell/) - Derren is the Founder & President of VVC, and also serves as Managing Partner. Before this role he served as the Chief Operating Officer for TAG Resources, LLC, a fiduciary outsourcing company with over $2 billion in assets under management. He is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary, Certified Defense Financial Manager, and Level 3 Certified in
- [Michelle Zook](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michelle-zook/) - Michelle Zook is a senior member of the TechLink economic research team. Previously, she served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, flying as an air battle manager with the 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron out of Tinker Air Force Base, OK. As squadron executive officer and chief of the orderly room, she
- [Amy Taft](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/amy-taft/) - Amy Taft is the Director of Curriculum and Learning at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, where she is responsible for maintaining and updating all program content. During her participation in Stand-To, Amy is working to create a comprehensive curriculum to train communities how to set up ongoing peer to peer support groups for
- [Charles Sevola](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/charles-sevola/) - Charles Sevola Jr. joined WOS in March 2020 as the Chief Strategic Advisor for Veteran Programs. Chuck brings with him three decades’ worth of experience as an IT Executive and in roles promoting education and employment, employee engagement, thought leadership, financial wellness and philanthropic activities. Prior to joining WOS, Chuck was Head of Prudential’s Office
- [Christine Schwartz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christine-schwartz/) - Christine Schwartz is a former Army officer and military spouse who is passionate about supporting and enabling veterans as they enter a new phase of their life. A combat veteran herself, Christine spent five years on active duty before working in the tech sector managing programs at both start-ups and a non-profit. Before her role
- [Michael Richardson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-richardson/) - Michael Richardson is the Vice President of all mental and brain health programs for the Wounded Warrior Project, which works to improve the resilience and psychological well-being of veterans. During the Stand-To program, Michael is continuing to change the way mental health is approached. He is focusing on not only the veteran but also the
- [Dan Pflieger](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dan-pflieger/) - Dan joined CreatiVets in 2019 and serves as the organization’s Deputy Director. Dan brings with him over a decade of serving in various roles with veteran service organizations. Before joining CreatiVets, Dan was the Executive Director of the Salute Military Golf Association (SMGA). The SMGA’s mission was to improve health and wellness outcomes of our
- [Jason Pak](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jason-pak/) - Jason Pak is the Senior Manager for Boeing Global Engagement and is responsible for creating and executing the engagement strategy for veterans at Boeing. Through his participation in Stand-To, Jason is working to fully integrate 35 different veteran employee groups within Boeing in order to provide a best-in-class model to better serve Boeing employees, military
- [William Parker](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/william-parker/) - Will is a senior quality improvement consultant at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he works with hospital leadership to develop, implement and coordinate effective systems to evaluate and improve patient outcomes and quality care within multiple pediatric divisions. Prior to his career in healthcare, he served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army
- [Christopher Meek](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christopher-meek/) - Chris Meek is Managing Director of Global Relationship Management at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), where he oversees the relationships with some of the firm’s largest clients. Chris has been in the financial services industry for over 25 years and involved in the ETF marketplace since 2000. Before joining S&P DJI, Chris served as
- [John Ismay](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/john-ismay/) - John Ismay is a Pentagon correspondent in the Washington bureau and previously served as the At War reporter covering armed conflict for The New York Times Magazine. He was part of a team of New York Times reporters awarded a George A. Polk Award in 2015 for their coverage of SEAL Team Six. A graduate
- [Cicely Burrows-McElwain](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cicely-burrows-mcelwain/) - Cicely Burrows-McElwain is the Senior Public Health Advisor for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Cicely currently works to advance veteran outcomes through government department collaboration to address the mental health and substance use needs of military members and veterans and their families.
- [Kimberly Somerholter Moros](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kimberly-somerholter-moros/) - Kimberly Somerholter Moros, a retired 28-year U.S. Army colonel, serves as SoldierStrong’s vice chairperson. Her background includes experience in crisis planning, crisis communications and influence planning, decision-making, development of strategic communications strategies and serving as a guest instructor at NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany. She completed her last six years of service at the United
- [Saul Martinez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/saul-martinez/) - Saul Martinez is the Director of Warrior Services at Warriors and Quiet Waters Foundation. He is currently working on achieving positive outcomes in better mental health, improved sense of purpose, improved relationships and support networks through therapeutic fly-fishing in Bozeman, Montana.
- [Ryan Manion](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ryan-manion/) - Ryan lost her brother to war and her mother to cancer, and she’s the daughter of a retired Marine. A wife and mom to three, she is no stranger to resiliency and how to struggle well in life. Now the president of one of the nation’s leading veteran service organizations – the Travis Manion Foundation
- [Christina Lowhorn](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christina-lowhorn/) - Christina K. Lowhorn is the Veteran Small Business Manager on the Military and Veterans Affairs (MVA) Office at JP Morgan Chase. Through Stand-To, Christina is launching Corporate Distillery, a Facebook page that provides straightforward, actionable, and fact-based content designed to help veterans understand corporate America and succeed post-placement.
- [David Lee](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-lee/) - David Lee is the Director of Military Programs at CVS Health. He leads the effort to help the company improve engagement and gain insights from the patients, customers, candidates and colleagues who are part of the military community. With his participation in Stand-To, David is working to improve the programs and processes in the company
- [Lyla Kohistany](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lyla-kohistany/) - Lyla served on active duty from 2001 to 2007 as a Naval Surface Warfare and Intelligence officer, deploying to Bagram with Special Operations in 2005 as a counter-terrorism analyst. From 2008 to 2013, she consulted for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). From 2013
- [Mike Hutchings](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/mike-hutchings/) - Mike brings over 11 years of military, corporate, and non-profit experience to Combined Arms as the Chief Executive Officer. He knows firsthand the obstacles that service members and families face during the transition process, and is proud devoting his time ensuring that veterans are empowered to connect with and accelerate the impact on their communities.
- [Jon Horowitch](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jon-horowitch/) - Jon Horowitch was appointed President & CEO of Easterseals DC MD VA in 2017, after serving as the organization’s COO for five years. Jon leads a 250-person team that provides critical, direct services to the most vulnerable members of our community: children and adults with disabilities, low-income families, and veterans and military family members. To
- [Blake Hogan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/blake-hogan/) - Blake Hogan is the Executive Director of Bunker Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to serving military and military family entrepreneurs. I love working with good people who want to do big things for the right reasons. As a natural dot connector, it is my passion to help leaders achieve their potential. I help lead Bunker Labs
- [Jennifer Goetz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jennifer-goetz/) - Jennifer Goetz founded the Office of Military and Veteran Services at Washington University, where she works at all levels of the institution to advocate for and support the university’s military-connected students. I help service members, veterans and family members navigate their transition into higher education, meeting them where the military and academia intersect. I also
- [Jonathon Field](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jonathon-field/) - Jonathon Field is the Deputy Director of Veteran Education Programs at the Ohio Department of Veterans Services, which approves programs for GI Bill funding. Through Stand-To, Jonathon is working to unite the sharing of best practices on retaining veteran employees by helping to facilitate a Veterans Consortium within Central Ohio.
- [Tiffany Daugherty](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/tiffany-daugherty/) - Tiffany Daugherty is the Head of Military and Veteran Affairs at First Data Corporation, where she continuously works to increase the impact on employment of veterans and military spouses. she is working to improve pathways and reduce barriers to access to the best Wall Street jobs for veterans and military spouses. She is modeling this
- [Anne Meree Craig](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/anne-meree-craig/) - Anne Meree is a strategic leader and problem solver. She builds powerful networks and programs and flourishes in them while driving impact and creating value. Anne Meree grew an idea into a thriving enterprise and built multiple lines of revenue for support. She is a connector and swift decision maker who thrives in uncertain environments.
- [Blaire Brush](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/blaire-brush/) - Blaire Bush is a workshop facilitator for the AFX Group, an organization that works to educate and assist veterans in career readiness. With her participation in Stand-To, Blaire is hoping to increase spouse participation in her transition workshops to improve and enhance employment preparedness among veterans and their spouses.
- [Mary Beth Bruggeman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/mary-beth-bruggeman/) - I'm a Marine veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the mom to three great kiddos. My focus has been on being actively engaged with my community both within and outside our Marine Corps family. I built a small business from the ground up, and use my passion for leadership and personal connection to change lives
- [John Boerstler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/john-boerstler/) - John W. Boerstler was sworn-in on February 16, 2021, as the Chief Veterans Experience Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As Chief Veterans Experience Officer, John leads the Veterans Experience Office (VEO), the Secretary’s customer experience (CX) insight engine supporting and enabling the Department in providing the highest quality experiences in the delivery
- [D'Juan Wilcher](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/djuan-wilcher-2/) - D’Juan Wilcher is a Senior Program Manager for Travis Manion Foundation, a nonprofit veteran service organization that works to empower veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations. Global strategic leader known for mission advancement through staff and volunteer engagement, program Global strategic leader known for mission advancement through staff and
- [Benjamin Armstrong](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/benjamin-armstrong/) - Ben Armstrong is the Gulf Coast Regional Manager for NextOp Vets. Experienced Public and Veteran program leader with demonstrated successes in the government and non-profit organization management. Skilled in pioneering Public and Non-profit Initiatives, Program Development and Management, Public Speaking, Leadership, Strategic Planning, and growing new service markets.
- [Richard Casper](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/richard-casper/) - Richard co-founded CreatiVets and currently serves as the CreatiVets organization’s executive director. Richard served four years as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps, with a combat deployment in Fallujah, Iraq. During his deployment, he was hit by four IEDs in just four short months, causing him to suffer from a traumatic brain injury.
- [J.D. Williams](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/j-d-williams/) - J.D. Williams is a senior defense policy researcher at RAND focusing on national security, intelligence, and military issues. His recent work encompasses investigation of new concepts for amphibious and naval warfare, Russian and Chinese military strategy, and intelligence tradecraft for employing publicly available information and conducting intelligence net assessments. He came to RAND from the
- [Jennie W. Wenger](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jennie-w-wenger/) - Jennie W. Wenger (she/her) is a senior economist and director of the Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Department at the RAND Corporation, where she studies education and training, military compensation, and recruiting. Over the last 15 years, she has been the principal investigator of a series of studies examining the effectiveness of the National Guard Youth
- [Jeffrey B. Wenger](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeffrey-b-wenger/) - Jeffrey Wenger is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His current research examines the effects of working conditions on remaining in the labor force, and the transitions of military personnel into the civilian labor force. He is also leading a project on long-term unemployment among late-career workers. From 2003 to 2015 Wenger was
- [Cortney Weinbaum](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cortney-weinbaum/) - Cortney Weinbaum (she/her) is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation. She specializes in intelligence and space topics, and she has worked with the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense to improve policies, practices, and technologies. She has improved analytic and collection tradecraft; identified emerging technologies and their impact on space architectures, special
- [David A. Shlapak](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-a-shlapak/) - David A. Shlapak is a senior defense researcher at the RAND Corporation. Since joining RAND in 1982, he has led research and published on topics ranging from counterterrorism to nuclear strategy. His areas of research focus on the return of great power competititon as the defining characteristic of the global security environment. His current work
- [Howard J. Shatz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/howard-j-shatz/) - Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in international economics and economics and national security. His RAND research has included economic competition and the U.S. role in the global economic order; great power competition in the Middle East; the Chinese
- [Andrew Scobell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-scobell/) - Andrew Scobell is distinguished fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation, adjunct professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and member of the faculty at Pardee RAND Graduate School. He previously he served on the faculty of the George H. W. Bush
- [Agnes Gereben Schaefer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/agnes-gereben-schaefer/) - Agnes Gereben Schaefer is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research specializations include issues related to national security strategy, emerging threats, U.S. military personnel policy, reserve component issues, and homeland security/homeland defense issues. Since joining RAND in 2005, Schaefer has conducted more than 50 studies for senior civilian and military leaders, including:
- [Ashley L. Rhoades](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ashley-l-rhoades/) - Ashley Rhoades is a defense analyst at the RAND Corporation and serves as the special projects coordinator for RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP). At RAND, her work focuses on strategic competition, security cooperation, deterrence, terrorism and counterterrorism (with an emphasis on al Qaeda and the Islamic State), and European and Middle Eastern
- [Rajeev Ramchand](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rajeev-ramchand-2/) - Rajeev Ramchand (he/him) is codirector of the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute and a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents, service members and veterans, and minority populations. He has conducted many studies on suicide and suicide
- [Stephanie Pezard](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/stephanie-pezard/) - Stephanie Pezard is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on Arctic security; strategic competition; European security and transatlantic relations; measures short of war; security cooperation and security force assistance; deterrence and use of force; and French defense and security policy. Prior to joining RAND, Pezard was a researcher with the
- [Eric R. Pedersen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/eric-r-pedersen-2/) - Eric R. Pedersen is an adjunct behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. His primary affiliation is with the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. His research interests are primarily in the areas of young adult/adolescent alcohol use and comorbid mental health disorders. Pedersen has received funding to develop brief, online interventions
- [Jan Osburg](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jan-osburg/) - Jan Osburg is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on defense, aerospace engineering, emergency preparedness, and homeland security. Recent projects involved identifying options for aerial reconnaissance and security during Joint Forcible Entry Operations, assessing the potential of resistance-based deterrence, mitigating the North Korean nuclear and chemical threat, and planetary defense. He has
- [Bruce R. Orvis](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bruce-r-orvis/) - Bruce R. Orvis is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty. From 2001 to 2011, he directed the Manpower and Training Program in the RAND Army Research Division and was associate director from 1991 to 2000. Orvis's research covers a broad range of national defense
- [Julia Muravska](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/julia-muravska/) - Julia Muravska is a research leader at RAND Europe, where she leads the Defence Industry and Acquisition research portfolio. With 12 years of experience in conducting, managing and leading research in defence and security, Muravska combines expertise in defence and security industries, policy, and technology with wide-ranging experience in research management and design. She routinely
- [Karl P. Mueller](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/karl-p-mueller/) - Karl P. Mueller is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in research related to military and national security strategy, particularly coercion and deterrence. Mueller has written and lectured on a wide variety of subjects, including airpower theory, grand strategy, economic sanctions, nuclear proliferation, counterterrorism policy, space weapons, and wargaming. Among his
- [Lyle J. Morris](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lyle-j-morris/) - Lyle J. Morris is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he focuses on PRC foreign and military policies and security developments in East and Southeast Asia. From 2019 to 2021, Morris served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) as the Country Director for China, advising OSD on defense relations
- [Laura L. Miller](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/laura-l-miller/) - Laura L. Miller is a senior behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation. For 29 years she has studied the lives of military personnel and their families through surveys, observations, discussion groups, one-on-one interviews, and analyses of military policy and personnel data. Research topics include military culture and organization; deployment experiences; gender integration; sexual
- [Sarah O. Meadows](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sarah-o-meadows/) - Sarah O. Meadows is a senior sociologist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research areas include families and children (both civilian and military) and defense manpower issues, with a particular focus on readiness and resilience. Her recent work has focused on health and health behaviors among service
- [Michael J. Mazarr](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-j-mazarr/) - Michael J. Mazarr is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Previously he worked at the U.S. National War College, where he was professor and associate dean of academics; as president of the Henry L. Stimson Center; senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; senior defense aide on Capitol Hill; and
- [Dara Massicot](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dara-massicot/) - Dara Massicot is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND, she served as a senior analyst for Russian military capabilities at the Department of Defense. Her work at RAND focuses on defense and security issues in Russia and Eurasia. She specializes in Russian military strategy, combat operations, and escalation dynamics. Her long-term interests
- [Richard Mason](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/richard-mason/) - Richard Mason is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. His research spans a range of defense technology issues. He has led projects on artificial intelligence for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC); on laser weapon systems for AFSOC and for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; on backup systems
- [David Luckey](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-luckey/) - David S. Luckey is a senior international and defense researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He came to RAND from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs where he was the director of Homeland Security and served as the counterterrorism advisor to
- [Sale Lilly](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sale-lilly/) - Sale Lilly is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. His primary research interests are China’s economic development, Chinese soft power, distributed ledger technology (Blockchain) and business best practice in military systems. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, Lilly worked in management consulting designing crisis simulations and
- [Henry A. Leonard](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/henry-a-leonard/) - Henry "Chip" Leonard is a senior international/defense researcher at the RAND Corporation who served for more than 27 years as an Army officer; half of that time was with tactical units, including seven years of direct command experience. In addition, he served in key operational staff positions at the battalion, brigade, division, and corps levels.
- [Raymond Kuo](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/raymond-kuo/) - Raymond Kuo is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is an expert in international security, international order, and East Asia. He published two books in 2021: Following the Leader (Stanford University Press) on military alliances and Contests of Initiative (Westphalia-GMU Press) on China's maritime gray zone strategy. His other research has appeared in International Security, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, The National
- [Kirsten M. Keller](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kirsten-m-keller/) - Kirsten Keller is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. Keller's research focuses on personnel management and improving organizational effectiveness. Recent projects include examining ways to improve the diversity of senior military leaders, recruiting and development of the federal civilian workforce, effective prevention and response to hazing in the U.S. Armed Forces, the effectiveness
- [Brian Michael Jenkins](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/brian-michael-jenkins/) - Brian Michael Jenkins is a senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation and author of numerous books, reports, and articles on terrorism-related topics, including Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (2008, Prometheus Books). He formerly served as chair of the Political Science Department at RAND. On the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Jenkins
- [Jeffrey W. Hornung](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeffrey-w-hornung/) - Jeffrey Hornung is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in Japanese security and foreign policies, East Asian security issues, and U.S. foreign and defense policies in the Indo-Pacific region, including its alliances. Prior to joining RAND in April 2017, Hornung was the fellow for the Security and Foreign Affairs Program at
- [Quentin E. Hodgson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/quentin-e-hodgson/) - Quentin Hodgson is a senior international and defense researcher at the RAND Corporation focusing on cybersecurity, cyber operations, critical infrastructure protection, risk management, and command & control. He is also a member of the faculty at Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has led projects for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of
- [Kimberly A. Hepner](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kimberly-a-hepner/) - Kimberly Hepner is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on approaches to assess and improve quality of care for mental health and substance use problems. She has led several large studies assessing the quality of care received by patients with unhealthy alcohol use, substance use
- [Todd C. Helmus](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/todd-c-helmus/) - Todd C. Helmus is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty. He specializes in disinformation, terrorism, and social media. Helmus' latest research focuses on ways to counter Russian disinformation campaigns in the United States and Europe and assess the impact of international counter violent
- [Bruce Held](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bruce-held/) - Bruce J. Held is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Since coming to RAND, he has focused his research efforts on defense acquisition, industrial base, and research and development (R&D) policy. Prior to joining RAND, Held worked in private industry as a market planner and as a systems engineer. He is a former
- [Timothy R. Heath](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/timothy-r-heath/) - Timothy R. Heath is a senior international defense researcher at the RAND Corporation. Prior to joining RAND in October 2014, he served as the senior analyst for the USPACOM China Strategic Focus Group. He has over twenty years of experience researching and analyzing military and political topics related to China. In addition to his publications
- [Lawrence M. Hanser](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lawrence-m-hanser/) - Lawrence M. Hanser (he/him) is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He previously served as associate director of the Manpower, Personnel, and Training Program within RAND Project AIR FORCE. As an industrial/organizational psychologist, Hanser’s research has focused on people and organizations, and the interface between them—specifically on the design of organizations, and how
- [Michael L. Hansen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-l-hansen/) - Michael L. Hansen is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation where he currently serves as associate director of RAND Arroyo Center. He previously served as that division's research quality assurance manager, as director of its Personnel, Training, and Health program, and as associate director of its Manpower and Training program. Hansen has conducted research on
- [Jeff Hagen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeff-hagen/) - Jeff Hagen is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. His research areas include technological systems analysis and strategic policy and decisionmaking. Much of his work involves modeling and simulation of military forces, including the effects of advanced weapon systems, intelligence, command and control, and information operations. His recent publicly-available RAND publications include Modeling Rapidly
- [Robert A. Guffey](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/robert-a-guffey/) - Robert A. Guffey is a communications analyst at the RAND Corporation, serving as lead communications analyst for RAND Project AIR FORCE. He has a Ph.D. in English literature from New York University.
- [Derek Grossman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/derek-grossman/) - Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation focused on a range of national security policy and Indo-Pacific security issues. He closely tracks intensifying U.S.-China competition throughout the region, to include in Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia as well as Oceania. He has led or participated in numerous RAND studies assessing
- [Adam R. Grissom](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/adam-r-grissom/) - Adam Grissom is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on special operations, airpower, and innovation. Current RAND projects inform counterterrorism operations in Africa and the Middle East, force planning for U.S. and allied special operations units, and technology assessment for emerging special mission areas. Grissom's academic work focuses on the field-level
- [Kristie L. Gore](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kristie-l-gore/) - Kristie Gore is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. She relies on a broad range of methods to prevent and treat behavioral health conditions. Her military health services research has addressed topics such as the assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder, sexual assault and sexual harassment, and racial and ethnic harassment and discrimination in
- [Daniel Gonzales](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/daniel-gonzales/) - Daniel Gonzales is a senior scientist at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He conducts research on communications; electronic warfare (EW), cybersecurity, cloud computing, quantum computing, terrorist use of the Internet, and cyber supply chain risk management. He has examined technical and policy issues in these areas for the Department of
- [Charles A. Goldman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/charles-a-goldman/) - Charles A. Goldman is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor of economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in the economics of education, skills and workforce needs, strategic planning for education systems, and organization and performance of schools, universities, and systems. He is examining barriers to attracting talent and
- [Daniel M. Gerstein](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/daniel-m-gerstein/) - Daniel M. Gerstein is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as under secretary (Acting) and deputy under secretary in the Science & Technology Directorate. He has extensive experience in security and defense while serving as a Senior Executive Service (SES) government civilian,
- [Diana Gehlhaus](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/diana-gehlhaus/) - Diana Gehlhaus is an adjunct policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on the intersection of tech and talent, including the U.S. artificial intelligence workforce; education and workforce development policy; youth career and educational decisionmaking; youth workforce outcomes; labor market trends; military recruiting and talent management; and technology and telecommunications policy. Prior to joining
- [Stephen J. Flanagan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/stephen-j-flanagan/) - Stephen J. Flanagan is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He served in several senior positions in government, most recently as special assistant to the president and senior director for defense policy and strategy at the National Security Council (NSC) from 2013 to 2015. Between 1989 and 1999 he served as special assistant
- [Coreen Farris](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/coreen-farris/) - Coreen Farris is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on sexual violence, workplace harassment and discrimination, and mental health. Farris's recent work includes research to estimate the prevalence of military sexual assault and to support prevention programming. Farris earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University Bloomington and completed
- [Charles C. Engel](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/charles-c-engel/) - Dr. Charles Engel (he/him) is an adjunct physician policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, and core VA HSR&D investigator and codirector of the Seattle VA's advanced health services research fellowship. Engel's work focuses on trauma-informed health systems and strategies for improving the quality of primary care for
- [Mel Eisman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/mel-eisman/) - Mel Eisman is a senior operations research analyst at the RAND Corporation. He has generated system life-cycle cost estimates for analysis of alternative studies on future Air Force airborne tanker and airborne electronic attack options, and participated in cost-effectiveness studies of (1) manned vs. unmanned airborne systems platform/sensor force mix options for performing future Air
- [Paul DeLuca](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/paul-deluca/) - Paul DeLuca is director of the Navy and Marine Forces Center, a program of the RAND National Security Research Division, and a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. He focuses on technology issues for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, SOCOM, U.S. Air Force, and Australian DoD. His recent research includes a series of analyses
- [Abby Doll](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/abby-doll/) - Abby Doll is codirector of the RAND Center for Gaming and a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where she focuses on military capabilities assessment and military strategy. In particular, she focuses on competition, multi-domain operations, and logistics and deployment challenges for future conflict scenarios. She also develops and executes expert-adjudicated wargames exploring new operational concepts.
- [Christine Eibner](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christine-eibner/) - Christine Eibner is the Paul O'Neill Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis; director, Payment, Cost, and Coverage Program; and a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on health insurance reforms, including modifications to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), changes to health insurance benefit design, and ACA replacement proposals. She currently leads an analysis
- [Lynn E. Davis](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lynn-e-davis/) - Lynn E. Davis is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation. From 2006 to 2014 she served as director of RAND's Washington office and from 1993 to 1997, she served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs. Her current research focuses on strategic planning, terrorism, citizen preparedness, and defense
- [Lindsay Daugherty](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lindsay-daugherty/) - Lindsay Daugherty is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who specializes in education and workforce policy. Her recent areas of focus include access to and success in postsecondary education, workforce development programs, and the education, training, and career transitions of military and veteran populations. Daugherty's work often involves close partnerships with policymakers and
- [Natalie W. Crawford](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/natalie-w-crawford/) - Natalie Crawford is a senior fellow and distinguished chair in Air and Space Policy at the RAND Corporation. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has held a number of leadership positions within RAND Project Air Force, and was vice president and director from 1997 to 2006. Crawford received the
- [Raymond E. Conley](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/raymond-e-conley/) - Raymond E. Conley is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation. Conley has led and worked on an array of policy studies concentrating primarily on U.S. Air Force human resources and organizational issues. Recent research projects at RAND include evaluating the size, structure, and development of AF space personnel; evaluating the acquisition workforce; analyzing
- [James S. Chow](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/james-s-chow/) - James S. Chow is vice president and director of RAND Project AIR FORCE, and a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. He has studied a variety of issues in the national defense and homeland security fields, from aircraft and weapons-related force planning issues to detailed modeling and simulation of aircraft and air defense interactions. He
- [Jason H. Campbell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jason-h-campbell/) - Jason H. Campbell is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, where he focuses on issues of international security, counterinsurgency, intelligence, and measuring progress in post-conflict reconstruction. From June 2016 through September 2018, he served as country director for Afghanistan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy. His most recent work has
- [Rick Brennan, Jr](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rick-brennan-jr/) - Rick Brennan is an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a career Army officer with high-level Department of Defense experience on issues relating to the war in Iraq, conflict resolution, homeland defense, and strategic planning. Brennan joined RAND in 1999 and since 2006 he has served in successive positions in Iraq to include
- [Irv Blickstein](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/irv-blickstein/) - Irv Blickstein is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. He has 50 years of experience in the field of defense analysis and management with a specialty in planning, programming, and budgeting as well as acquisition. For the past 13 years, Blickstein has managed the research of activities of a series of projects in support
- [Katharina Ley Best](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/katharina-ley-best/) - Katharina Best the associate director of the Personnel, Training, and Health (PT&H) program within RAND Arroyo Center, and a senior operations researcher at the RAND Corporation. Best is also an associate director RAND's Engineering and Applied Sciences Department. Her research interests focus on applications of operations research and mathematical modeling, including work on risk management, military
- [John Birkler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/john-birkler/) - John Birkler is a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation. He has held a variety of research and management positions since joining RAND; From 1998 to 2017, as director of RAND's Maritime Programs, he managed research for the U.S. Navy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), U.S. Coast Guard, the
- [Dwayne Butler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dwayne-butler/) - Dwayne Butler is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation and professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His areas of substantive knowledge or experience include leadership; human capital management; organizational theory; educational theory, with particular focus on adult and continuing education; strategic planning; strategic communications; vocational psychology; diversity and inclusion;
- [Steve Oliver, Jr](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/steve-oliver-jr/) - Stephen W. (Steve) Oliver, Jr. is an adjunct international and defense policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. He joined RAND in 2021 after retiring from the Air Force as a Major General. His 31-years of Air Force service included worldwide operational and combat flying as a KC-135 and C-130 navigator, as well as diverse Air
- [Bruce W. Bennett](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bruce-w-bennett/) - Bruce W. Bennett is an adjunct international/defense researcher at the RAND Corporation. He works primarily on research topics such as strategy, force planning, and counterproliferation within the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center. Bennett's work applies wargaming, risk management, deterrence-based strategy, competitive strategies, and military simulation and analysis. He specializes in “asymmetric threats” such
- [Bart E. Bennett](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bart-e-bennett/) - Bart Bennett is a senior operations researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. With 35 years of experience performing policy-oriented analyses, he has led and conducted research in such diverse areas as military manpower, advanced technology, education and training, military operations, aircraft survivability, defense planning for both strategic
- [Jacopo Bellasio](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jacopo-bellasio/) - Jacopo Bellasio is a research leader at RAND Europe where he focuses on defence and security issues. Some of his recent work includes research on conflict risk assessment and monitoring, counterterrorism, preventing and countering violent extremism, cybersecurity, cyber defence, and border and regional security. While at RAND, Bellasio has managed and contributed to a wide
- [Laura Werber](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/laura-werber/) - Laura Werber is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She applies organizational theories and methods to a wide array of policy issues, including talent management, performance management, organizational design, veteran reintegration, and military families. Her recently-completed military projects include ones related to defense civilian
- [David Schulker](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-schulker/) - David Schulker is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on applying econometric and statistical techniques to help Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security clients analyze human resource management challenges related to outreach, recruiting, career progression, talent management, workforce development, and retention. He has also worked on some additional topics
- [Julia Rollison](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/julia-rollison/) - Julia Rollison (she/her) is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her research primarily focuses on improving understanding of pressing public health issues for vulnerable populations through mixed-methods approaches. At RAND, she leads several program evaluations as well as supports analyses, measure development, and stakeholder engagement for different clients. She also serves as a member
- [Claire E. O'Hanlon](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/claire-e-ohanlon/) - Claire E. O'Hanlon (she/her) is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. A health services, economics, and policy researcher with a background in engineering, experience in applied quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, her research interests include health care systems and consolidation, aging and the end of life, and emerging health technologies. Her work has
- [Stephanie Brooks Holliday](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/stephanie-brooks-holliday/) - Stephanie Brooks Holliday (she/her) is a behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research has spanned a range of topics. Several of her studies at RAND have focused on the criminal and juvenile justice system, including the evaluation of programs to improve community reintegration. She also led a study to estimate the size of the
- [Tamara Dubowitz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/tamara-dubowitz/) - Tamara Dubowitz (she/her) is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and faculty at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Trained in social epidemiology with concentrations in maternal and child health and public health nutrition, her research focuses on the role of place, or geography, and the health of marginalized populations. Her interests also lie
- [Kimberly Curry Hall](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kimberly-curry-hall/) - Kimberly Curry Hall is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her primary research areas focus on workforce diversity, military personnel issues, veteran employment, and military families. Her recent projects include the identification of barriers to increased women's retention in the U.S. Coast Guard; examination of private-sector companies' experiences hiring veterans and strategies to
- [Ben Caves](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ben-caves/) - Ben Caves is a senior research leader at RAND Europe working in the area of defense, security and infrastructure. A former Royal Air Force logistics officer with over 20 years of experience, his career spans operations management, strategic planning and international policy development. Early on, Caves led personnel in various high-pressure environments including Iraq and
- [Carrie M. Farmer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/carrie-m-farmer/) - Carrie M. Farmer is codirector of the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute, director of the Health Care Quality Measurement and Improvement Program, and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her areas of research include military and veteran health policy and quality of health care. She has led multiple studies to assess
- [Rajeev Ramchand](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rajeev-ramchand/) - Rajeev Ramchand (he/him) is co-director of the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute and a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents, service members and veterans, and minority populations. He has conducted many studies on suicide and suicide
- [Leroy Chapman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/leroy-chapman/) - Leroy Chapman Jr. is deputy managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he is in charge of reporting teams that cover state, local and federal government; politics; education; public safety; local, state and federal courts; transportation; immigration and breaking news. He has worked at the AJC since 2011. Previously, he was the governance editor at
- [Luis Alvarez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/luis-alvarez/) - Luis Alvarez is associate professor in the UC San Diego Department of History who serves as the inaugural director of the university’s Institute of Arts and Humanities and the Chicana/o Latina/o Arts and Humanities program. Their research and teaching interests include relational race and ethnicity, popular culture, and social movements in the history of Chicanas/os, Latinas/os,
- [David Veech](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-veech/) - Work should be fun, exciting, challenging, and interesting. Leaders make or break this kind of workplace. David started D. Veech & Co. and Leadersights to help organizations of all types develop better leaders. He is the author of “Leadersights: Creating great leaders who create great workplaces” (2017, CRC Press), “The C4 Process: Four Vital Steps to
- [Frank Katz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/frank-katz/) - Professor Frank H. Katz is Assistant Professor of Information Technology in the College of Engineering and Computing and Director of the Center for Applied Cyber Education at Georgia Southern University. He received a B.A. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Florida in 1977, and a M.S. in Management from the College of Business
- [Abe Usher](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/abe-usher/) - Abe Usher is the Chief Technology Officer of the HumanGeo Group, a Big Data analysis company. Previously, Usher was an engineer at Google where he worked on the integration of search and geospatial technologies such as Google Maps. Usher has spoken before audiences at Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, General Electric, the Nielson Company,
- [Robert Ord](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/robert-ord/) - Biography Mr. Robert Ord is the founder and President of Falken Industries. He is widely considered an expert regarding U.S. National Security and is often called upon to be an expert witness in criminal trials for domestic and international terrorism. He is also a recognized expert in Law Enforcement Defensive Tactics. He holds a 7th Degree
- [Helen Harris](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/helen-harris/) - Helen Harris came to Waco to begin the first hospice in Waco. She has served as a social worker and bereavement coordinator for Hillcrest Community Hospice, where she was the first director of the program. Since coming to Baylor in 1997, she has continued to work with hospice by volunteering with Providence Hospice and by providing
- [Charles Tang](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/charles-tang/) - Serial entrepreneur in creating technology, business, and nonprofit companies. Over 35 years of experience working with senior levels of the government, industry, and academia in architecting and integrating military, civil, and commercial space and ground systems into an interoperable enterprise. Graduate degrees in electrical engineering and business. Areas of expertise include technology innovation, technology startups, systems
- [Richard Hollis](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/richard-hollis/) - Richard Hollis is the Chief Executive Officer for Risk Factory Ltd, a European information security risk management consulting firm specialising in providing effective, independent information risk management services. As a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control, (CRISC), Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor
- [Stella Oh](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/stella-oh/) - Professor Stella Oh completed her Ph.D. in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine with an emphasis in Gender Studies and Critical Theory. Professor Oh’s research and teaching interests revolve around representations of race, gender and war. Her research has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; Amerasia Journal;
- [Robert H. Klenke](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/robert-h-klenke/) - Dr. Klenke received his BSEE from the Virginia Military Institute in 1982. He served four years in the United States Navy as a Civil Engineer Corps officer. During his Navy career he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and received the Navy Achievement Medal and the Meritorious Unit Citation. Dr. Klenke received his MSEE in
- [Charles Figley](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/charles-figley/) - Charles Figley is an internationally-known trauma expert, social work professor and head of the Tulane Trauma Institute. Following Hurricane Katrina, he helped mobilize crisis counselors for hurricane survivors, conducted training sessions for post-Katrina practitioners and lectured across the country on disaster-related trauma. Since arriving at Tulane in 2008, he has proven to be a transforming presence,
- [Rebecca Campbell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rebecca-campbell/) - For the past 25 years, Rebecca Campbell has been conducting community-based research on violence against women and children, with an emphasis on sexual assault. Campbell’s research examines how contact with the legal and medical systems affects adult, adolescent, and pediatric victims’ psychological and physical health. Most recently, she was the lead researcher for the National Institute
- [Jay Heslen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jay-heslen/) - Heslen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Augusta University and serves on faculty at Augusta University’s Cyber Institute. Before coming to Augusta University, Heslen served as an intelligence officer with both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the United States Air Force, specializing in combatting terrorism, counterintelligence, and strategic cyber intelligence. He is a Lieutenant
- [Susan M. Sparks](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/susan-m-sparks/) - An award-winning journalist and photographer, Susan M. Sparks lived around the world as a military spouse. With each new location, Susan engaged her creative skills working as a reporter and editor for various newspapers, an on-air news reporter and announcer, speechwriter for high-ranking military officers and lead military tours for VIPs. She has handled hysterical brides
- [Robert Anderson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/robert-anderson/) - • Bob Anderson now delivers open source intelligence & analysis regarding U.S. national security items you need to know • Over 20 years directing and leading major business development and program management or security consulting efforts for major systems engineering, design and development -- including research and development -- valued from $20M to $500M. • Evaluated,
- [Kirk Hazlett](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/curry-college/) - 35+ years' federal government and nonprofit organization PR experience followed by nearly 10 years' undergraduate- and graduate-level college teaching experience. Community and media relations expertise, as well as a fanaticism for quality service and customer satisfaction. PR for healthcare and member services organizations ranging from Blood Bank of Hawaii to Medical Area Service Corporation to Boston
- [Michael Wallace](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-wallace/) - Michael Wallace, Ed.D., is a retired military intelligence officer with 20 years of active service. His military assignments included Naval Special Warfare, Defense Human Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Office of Naval Intelligence. Post-military, he worked as a senior intelligence analyst in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Directorate. He is a graduate of
- [Suzanne Wenzel](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/suzanne-wenzel/) - Suzanne Wenzel has devoted much of her career to interdisciplinary research that seeks to understand and address health-related needs of vulnerable populations, particularly individuals experiencing homelessness in urban communities. Wenzel has served as the principal investigator on ten grants from the National Institutes of Health. Funding for these projects from the National Institute on Alcohol
- [Michael S. Rogers](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-s-rogers/) - Admiral Rogers joined Brunswick in July 2019 following a 37 year career in the U.S. Navy and is a senior advisor to the firm in the areas of cyber security, privacy, geopolitics, technology and intelligence as well as crisis management and the challenges of leading large organizations in a democratic society in the digital age. Mike
- [Siobhan Gorman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/siobhan-gorman/) - Siobhan Gorman is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the Brunswick Group, where she concentrates on crisis, cybersecurity, public affairs, and media relations. Siobhan has worked on corporate crisis across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, defense, entertainment, technology, and automotive. Siobhan has also led a range of cybersecurity, public affairs, litigation,
- [Barry Balleck](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/barry-balleck/) - Barry J. Balleck received a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in international studies from Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder with emphases in international relations, American politics, and political theory. Upon completion of his degree, Dr. Balleck joined the faculty of Georgia
- [Prashant Mali](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/prashant-mali/) - Mr. Prashant Mali is India's Award winning and Leading Lawyer practicing in Technology,Cyber,Privacy Law and financial crimes matters .An Expert Speaker & Thought Leader on Cyber crime, Cyber Law,Cyber Security,Banking and Insurance Frauds,Cyber Terrorism,Cyber War,Credit Card frauds,Digital Signatures,Cloud Computing & Security and topic concerning with Internet Technologies. He has reach experience of 20 years in Information
- [Kerstin Fisk](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kerstin-fisk/) - Kerstin Fisk is an associate professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University and a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo. Her research focuses on issues of conflict and security, emphasizing civil war dynamics, violence against civilians, and communal conflict. She has published work in Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution,
- [Charles Kurzman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/charles-kurzman/) - Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. He is author of "The Missing Martyrs" (2011; updated edition scheduled for release in Fall 2018), "Democracy Denied, 1905-1915" (2008), and "The Unthinkable
- [Dr. Eric Leuthardt](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dr-eric-leuthardt/) - Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D. is a neurosurgeon who is currently an associate professor with the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is Director of the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology. His research has focused on neuroprosthetics – devices linked to the brain
- [Wizdom Powell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/wizdom-powell/) - Wizdom Powell is director of the Health Disparities Institute and associate professor of Psychiatry at UConn Health. As president-elect to the American Psychological Association's Society for the Study of Men & Masculinities, she is the first African American woman to hold the position. In 2011-2012, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as a
- [Michael Rank](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-rank/) - Michael Rank is a clinical associate professor at the Virtual Academic Center. Previously, he served as director of the school's San Diego Academic Center. He has been affiliated with the USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families since January 2011. From 1995 to 2010, he was a tenured associate professor at
- [Umeka Franklin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/umeka-franklin/) - UMEKA FRANKLIN began her career as an adjunct field faculty lecturer teaching integrative seminars as well as courses in military clinical experience and Virtual Field Practicum. She also served as a field liaison at the Virtual Academic Center. She is currently a clinical assistant professor in field education in the Department of Children, Youth and
- [Chimène Keitner](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/chimene-keitner/) - Professor Chimène Keitner is a leading authority on international law and civil litigation and served as the 27th Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State. She has authored two books and dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters on questions surrounding the relationship among law, communities, and borders, including issues of jurisdiction,
- [Christopher R. Lindsay](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christopher-r-lindsay/) - Chris Lindsay is a retired Navy Captain and former Commander of Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) selection and training, including basic, advanced, and leader development courses. Currently, he works in San Diego as a Director of Leadership Development at All American Leadership. Other prior professional experience includes command of overseas military units, director of instructor training
- [Phil Sampson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/phil-sampson/) - Phil Sampson was a career Royal Marines officer before forming Sampson Hall. He is a proven dynamic and innovative leader with outstanding communication skills. He has extensive experience in military operations and in intelligence and security, contingency planning, and building multi-agency organizations having worked in Whitehall and internationally. Phil has developed, led, and managed teams
- [Cody Sullivan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cody-sullivan/) - I have over 22 years of experience in military aviation and military intelligence experience. I have trained US Army and Afghan forces in conducting counter-narcoterrorism operations. As a US Army Intelligence Officer, I have developed intelligence collection and analysis programs. My latest assignment was to adapt US Army intelligence doctrine for use in the United
- [Jef Williams](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jef-williams/) - Jeffrey (Jef) A. Williams is an inspiring, award-winning speaker, author, and facilitator who is committed to helping leaders and managers build high performing teams that produce better results for their organization. He firmly believes that when leaders and those who follow them bring their “A Game” to the table, nothing can stop them from succeeding
- [Leland Sandler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/leland-sandler/) - Leland Sandler is an Executive Advisor with the Sandler Group, an executive advising, organizational effectiveness, and management-consulting firm based in Southern California. Leland works with CEOs, senior executives, and other leadership teams to help industry leaders reach their fullest potential. While working largely with the life sciences and technology communities, Leland Sandler has also worked
- [James Hendler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/james-hendler/) - James Hendler is the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web, and Cognitive Sciences at RPI. He also heads the RPI-IBM Center for Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics (HEALS) and serves as a Chair of the Board of the UK’s charitable Web Science
- [Stephen Rispoli, J.D.](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/stephen-rispoli-j-d/) - Stephen Rispoli earned his political science degree from Baylor University in 2009, his J.D. from Baylor Law in 2012, and his LL.M. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2018. Stephen worked as a District Director for former Texas State Representative Carol Kent. He describes his time working in the 81st Legislature as
- [Jennifer M. Ramos](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jennifer-m-ramos/) - Jennifer M. Ramos is an Associate Professor and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of political change, with an emphasis on the role of ideas, norms, and identity. Her current research interests include peacebuilding in divided societies, the globalization of the far
- [General Rick Hillier](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/general-rick-hillier/) - General(Ret.) Rick Hillier, CMM, MSC, CD (born 1955), is the former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces. He held this appointment from February 4, 2005, to July 1, 2008. He retired on July 1, 2008. He is also the highest-ranking Newfoundland and Labrador officer in history. He was posted to his first
- [Margaret Stock](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/margaret-stock/) - Margaret Stock is a lawyer and professor who practices US immigration and citizenship law and was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2013 by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is a nationally known expert on immigration and national security issues and has testified regularly before Congressional committees on immigration, homeland security,
- [Samar Ali](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/samar-ali/) - Samar S. Ali’s research initiatives focus on positive compromise through promoting conflict-resolution best practices among people, communities, and nations experiencing polarization due to the connection between violence and labeling. Ali joined Vanderbilt’s political sciences and law faculties as a research professor with 14 years of experience in international relations and legal practice. She began her
- [Eli Berman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/eli-berman/) - Eli Berman is a professor of economics at UC San Diego and research director for international security studies at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He co-directs the Economics of National Security group at the National Bureau of Economic Research and helps lead the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and the Economics of National Security
- [C. Nataraj](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/c-nataraj/) - Dr. Nataraj is the Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Moritz, Sr. Endowed Chair position in Engineered Systems, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Villanova Center for Analytics of Dynamic Systems (VCADS) at Villanova College of Engineering. Unmanned vehicles and robotics is Dr. Nataraj's primary area of specialty. Dr. Nataraj serves as faculty adviser for
- [Bree Akesson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bree-akesson/) - Dr. Akesson's program of research focuses broadly on international child protection, ranging from micro-level understandings of the experiences of children and families affected by war to macro-level studies on child protection systems strengthening. Her past research projects include an evaluation of psychosocial programs for children in Chechnya (2005) and northern Uganda (2008), a mapping of social
- [Tracie O. Afifi](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/tracie-o-afifi/) - Dr. Tracie Afifi is a professor in community health sciences and psychiatry at the University of Manitoba. She is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Adversity and Resilience. Her work has informed health policy and legislative changes at the national and international levels. Dr. Afifi’s primary research interests are in the areas
- [Julian Ford](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/julian-ford/) - I am a board-certified clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychiatry and law where I chair two panels of the Institutional Review Board, and on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. I am the principal investigator and director of two treatment and services adaptation centers in the National Child Traumatic Stress
- [Laura Wilson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/laura-wilson/) - Laura C. Wilson has a PhD in clinical psychology and her expertise focuses on post-trauma functioning, particularly in survivors of sexual violence or mass trauma (e.g., terrorism, mass shootings, combat). Her research examines the sociocultural influences on and psychosocial outcomes among survivors of sexual violence, indicators of PTSD following mass trauma, long-term functioning among first responders,
- [Gary Bowen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/gary-bowen/) - Dr. Bowen is Kenan Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Work (SSW) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He served as the School’s dean and as a member of the Provost Leadership Cabinet from August 2016-August 2021. Dr. Bowen is past president of the National Council on Family Relations. His
- [Robert Allen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/robert-allen/) - Robert has a significant work history in the security, intelligence, and law enforcement fields. This includes service in the UN Police Mission in the Balkans, and the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Mission in Israel and Afghanistan. Also, a previous assignment to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and Operation Iraq Freedom. His law enforcement
- [EJ Steele](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ej-steele/) - Mr. Steele is a multitalented adviser to corporate and nonprofit organizations providing expertise in the areas of employee relations, general management, policy, and marketing. His professional background includes extensive nonprofit management, program start-up and expansion, outcomes evaluation, and business development. He is also responsible for helping veterans and their families transition from military service to
- [Patricia Sullivan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/patricia-sullivan/) - Patricia L. Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Davis in 2004 with a
- [Kevan Jacobson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kevan-jacobson/) - Colonel (Retired) Kevan Jacobson served more than 30 years as a lawyer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He is a recognized expert in criminal law with extensive experience as a prosecuting attorney, supervisory defense counsel, and criminal justice administrator. Jacobson served around the world at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels during his
- [David Bringhurst](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-bringhurst/) - Dr. Bringhurst has been a Clinical Associate Professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work since 2013. He has worked in social services and the social work arena since 1986, including 21 years as an active-duty military social worker in the United States Air Force. He retired from the Air Force with the
- [Lance Hunter](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lance-hunter/) - Hunter is an assistant professor of political science with a background in international relations. His research focuses on how terrorist attacks influence politics in democratic countries and how political decisions within countries affect conflicts worldwide. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Peace Research, Terrorism and Political Violence, Party Politics, Studies in
- [Michael Nowatkowski](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-nowatkowski/) - Dr. Michael Nowatkowski is an Associate Professor with the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences. He also serves as the Head of the Cyber Program of Study.
- [Jed Johnson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jed-johnson/) - Jed Johnson supervises operations and staff for CARF International's Aging Services accreditation area. He provides leadership for developing standards and improvements in accreditation processes. Jed joined CARF in October 2018 after 18 years at Easterseals, where he served as vice president of national programs. Johnson's primary expertise lies in caregiving (with a prior focus on rural
- [Cynthia Rollo-Carlson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cynthia-rollo-carlson/) - Cynthia Rollo-Carlson joined in 2012 and after being promoted to adjunct assistant professor she now serves as a full-time senior lecturer. She teaches foundation courses in human behavior and the social environment, grief, loss and bereavement in social work as well as Assessment and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders. Committed to social justice and policy change,
- [Dr Virginie Grzelczyk](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dr-virginie-grzelczyk/) - Dr. Virginie Grzelczyk is a Reader in International Relations at Aston University and the Head of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She holds a MA and PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and a MA in Diplomacy and Security from Ewha University. Virginie's research focuses on security relationships over the
- [Veronica Kitchen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/veronica-kitchen/) - Veronica M. Kitchen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research is primarily on national security in a Canadian context, from the perspective of critical and feminist security studies. Her most recent book is Heroism and Global Politics (Routledge, 2018), co-edited with Jennifer
- [Alayne "Mimi" Ormerod](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/alayne-mimi-ormerod/) - Alayne (Mimi) Ormerod, Ph.D., is a core faculty member and Director of Research Practicum Training in the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Ormerod is the 2018 Chair for the American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology. She has held multiple leadership positions in APA Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women
- [Jeffrey Morris](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeffrey-morris/) - Seasoned professional with over 30 years experience in cyber and intelligence operations. Adept at implementing the guidance, vision, and strategy of executive-level decision-makers. Over 12 years experience teaching cyber knowledge in an academic environment. Experienced talent manager in both intelligence and cyber fields. Experienced working with the military, interagency, and non-governmental partners. Ph.D. research concentrated
- [Sara L. Dolan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sara-l-dolan/) - Dr. Dolan joined the Baylor faculty in 2007, after serving as a National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism-funded Postdoctoral Fellow and subsequently a National Cancer Institute-funded faculty member at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. While at Brown, she also served as a Research Scientist at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical
- [Hazel Atuel](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/hazel-atuel/) - Hazel Atuel is a social psychologist whose research interests include social identity and self; intergroup relationships (especially majority-minority group relations); stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; veteran identity and transition; military/veteran radicalization; and, moral injury.
- [Ken Keen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ken-keen/) - Lieutenant General (Ret) P. K. (Ken) Keen is a native of Hyden, Kentucky. LTG (Ret) Keen is currently the Associate Dean of Leadership Development and a faculty member in Organization and Management for Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, Georgia. In this role, he manages a school-wide leadership development program for the MBA programs,
- [Kara Vuic](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kara-vuic/) - I am the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University. I research, write, and teach about the history of wars and militarization, the history of gender and sexuality, and social and cultural history. My newest book is The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front
- [Adrian Blow](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/adrian-blow/) - Dr. Adrian Blow grew up in South Africa and is Professor and Chair of the Human Development and Family Studies Department. He is the former Director of the MSU Couple and Family Therapy program. He obtained his PhD from Purdue University in 1999, served on the faculty at Saint Louis University for six years, and
- [Kristen Zaleski](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kristen-zaleski/) - Dr. Kristen Zaleski is a professor, psychotherapist, and researcher of sexual violence in both civilian and military settings. Her current research interests include technology facilitated sexual violence, gender based violence and its connection to human rights within American society, and clinical treatments of trauma in the therapy room. She is a topic expert on sexual
- [Michael Mower](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-mower/) - Michael Mower is the executive director and chief flight instructor for Southern Utah University's aviation program. Mower brings his years of service in the United States Air Force to the classroom, enriching discussions and interactions with current students. During his time in the Air Force, Mower worked in the fuels and cryogenics lab and was the
- [L. Todd Wood](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/l-todd-wood/) - As a Special Operations pilot, L Todd Wood flew missions for Seal Team 6 and Delta Force. He’s on a new mission now — to protect the American way of life and rescue it from the destructive grip of the socialist ideology that threatens its sovereignty and everything that makes this country great. With his
- [Sara Kintzle](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sara-kintzle/) - SARA KINTZLE is an associate research professor in the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families. Since joining USC in 2013, Kintzle has earned a reputation as an emerging national and international leader on issues related to military service. Kintzle has focused on building an
- [Kevin Zimmerman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kevin-zimmerman/) - Kevin Zimmerman is the National Director of Outreach/Help For Heroes at Springstone, Inc. With participation in Stand-To, Kevin is continuing his efforts to streamline the processes that make veteran access to mental health and chemical dependency care easily accessible.
- [Amy Williams](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/amy-williams/) - Amy Williams is the Clinic Director at the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Metrocare, an outpatient mental health clinic focused on helping post-9/11 veterans and military families. With her participation in Stand-To, Amy hopes to improve care for veterans seeking treatment for co-occurring traumatic brain injury symptoms and post-traumatic stress.
- [D'Juan Wilcher](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/djuan-wilcher/) - D’Juan Wilcher is a Senior Program Manager for Travis Manion Foundation, a nonprofit veterans service organization that works to empower veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations. With his participation in Stand-To, D’Juan is hoping to illuminate the leadership and management potential of non-commissioned officers and create and increase management
- [Brian Von Herbulis](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/brian-von-herbulis/) - Brian Von Herbulis is the Director of Mission43, the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation’s initiative designed to give currently serving military, former military, and military spouses in Idaho, the 43rd state, the resources for a successful transition after leaving the service. Through his participation in Stand-To, Brian is working on a leadership development model for
- [Jeremy Valdez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jeremy-valdez/) - Jeremy Valdez is a Global Senior Manager in HR Worldwide Operations at Amazon, leading the Associate Advisor Organization. The Advisor Organization illuminates the voice of the Amazon operational employee to senior Amazon leadership. With his participation in Stand-To, Jeremy is hoping to help decrease attrition of veterans hired at Amazon within their first year of
- [Misty Stutsman Fox](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/misty-stutsman-fox/) - Ms. Misty Stutsman Fox is the Director of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business portfolio at the Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF). In this role she is charged with building the Center of Excellence for Veteran Entrepreneurship as well as the Coalition for Veteran Owned Business. In addition, she oversees a broad
- [Christopher Stout](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christopher-stout/) - Chris Stout is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Veterans Community Project (VCP). Previously Chris worked at a nonprofit connecting veteran to veteran-specific resources. Chris helped launch and develop the program from infancy. Through his participation in Stand-To, Chris, through leadership and mentoring, is working to advance the lives of all homeless veterans in VCP
- [Kristin Saboe](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kristin-saboe/) - Kristin Saboe is the Global Senior Manager for Organizational Research and Employee Listening at Boeing. She is also responsible for formulating and leading Boeing’s Veterans and Military Spouses People Strategy. Through Stand-To, Kristin is advancing the execution and impact of Boeing’s strategy for its military-affiliated employees and the implementation of employer best practices and policies.
- [Vincent Ruiz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/vincent-ruiz/) - Vince currently serves as a licensed Associate Counselor in the Recovery Services Program for Ocean Mental Health. The primary responsibilities of the position include facilitating group and individual counseling sessions for veteran and civilian clients impacted by behavioral and/or mental health disorders. Through his participation in Stand-To, Vince is working with Recalibrate USA, a new
- [Lolly Rivas](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lolly-rivas/) - Lolly Rivas is the Director of Development at Dog Tag, Inc. (DTI), a Washington, D.C.- based nonprofit that empowers service-disabled veterans, military spouses, and caregivers to discover purpose through an innovative business and entrepreneurship-focused fellowship program. Through her participation in Stand-To, Lolly is working to develop a qualitative evaluation tool to better understand the spectrum
- [Seema Reza](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/seema-reza/) - Seema Reza is the author of two books and CEO of Community Building Art Works, an organization that bridges the veteran and civilian communities and combats social isolation through writing, art, improv, and music workshops in military and veteran healthcare settings. She holds undergraduate and graduates degrees in writing and community building from Goddard College.
- [William B. Reynolds, III](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/william-b-reynolds-iii/) - Will is the CEO and President of SERVE Advisory Group, a small federalist and commercial consulting firm that focuses on strategy, process, change management, and technology implementation consulting. Through his work, Will works with clients heavily across the Department of Defense, and Veterans Affairs Space, but also across commercial health care entities, other Fortune 500
- [John Perez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/john-perez/) - John Perez is a Senior Manager in the Acquisitions & Divestitures Operations Group at Johnson & Johnson. With his participation in Stand-To, John is identifying, assessing, and developing best practices and strategies for the private sector to support the needs of military families and spouses.
- [Jaime Chapman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jaime-chapman/) - Jaime Chapman is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Military Spouse Chamber of Commerce. Her professional background is in human resources and recruitment where she has placed over 1,600 jobseekers in careers, creating an economic impact totaling over $112 million. Jaime has achieved recognition for: #1 Military Spouse Owned Business Overall Award by Military
- [Archie Nettles](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/archie-nettles/) - Assistant Director of Development, The Jindal School of Management Archie Dean Nettles Jr. is a Beaumont, TX native that joined the United States Army at the age of 18 and served eight years in Active Duty and Reserve. While in the Army, he earned the rank of Sergeant and served in the Operation Enduring Freedom
- [Kyle Mitchell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kyle-mitchell/) - Through his work at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Kyle Mitchell works to ensure that veterans and their families get the mental health care they need and deserve. Kyle looks for opportunities to improve veteran policy at all levels of government and to assist organizations and communities in implementing innovative programs that improve the
- [Kimberly Mitchell](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/104175/) - Kim Mitchell is the President and CEO of Veterans Village of San Diego, an organization that works to provide resources, programs, and services to veterans in the areas of mental health, substance use disorder, case management, job training, job placement, educational/certification programs, and housing navigation. With her participation in Stand-To, Kim is hoping to increase
- [Sara McNamara](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sara-mcnamara/) - I'm an experienced organization development practitioner and coach and have worked extensively in global, regional, and national contexts, including USA/Canada, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. My background also includes over two decades of corporate experience in training, marketing, and sales. I have felt like an outsider at every transition point in my personal and
- [Michael Kelly](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-kelly/) - Mike Kelly leads USAA’s military advocacy strategy and initiatives that empower proactive support for the military community including USAA's veteran hiring programs. He manages collaborative engagements with key strategic military, nonprofit and for-profit advocacy groups to ensure USAA is a leading corporate citizen serving the military community and delivering on USAA’s brand promise to "Go
- [Regan Jones](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/regan-jones/) - Regan Jones was named Notre Dame’s director for military and veterans affairs in 2017. In this capacity, he heads the Office of Military & Veterans Affairs (OMVA) and provides strategic direction on behalf of the provost for the University’s veteran and military-related programs. This includes working closely with faculty, administrators, and staff to create, manage, and coordinate initiatives in support
- [Elizabeth Jamison](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/elizabeth-jamison/) - Elizabeth Jamison is an attorney with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the co-founder of MISSIONLicense. Through her participation in Stand-To, Libby is working to reduce occupational licensing barriers and increase workforce participation for military families.
- [Michael Hansen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/michael-hansen/) - Michael Hansen currently serves as the National Director of Military Affairs for Power Home Remodeling. In 2016, Michael created the Power Veterans Initiative, a unique approach to recruiting and developing veterans into leaders across the organization. Through his participation in Stand-To, Michael envisions creating a scalable blueprint for companies to follow in order to build
- [Richard Gross](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/richard-gross/) - Rich Gross is the General Counsel for Pallas Advisors, a D.C.-based strategic advisory firm specializing in national security. Through his participation in Stand-To, Rich is working to create a not-for-profit organization to provide military and veteran nonprofits with low-cost (and in some cases no-cost) leadership development and coaching, board/governance training and development, and legal services.
- [Earl Fontenot](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/earl-fontenot/) - Earl Fontenot served in the U.S. Army with the 10th Mountain Division from 2003 - 2006, deploying to both Afghanistan and Iraq. After leaving the Army he has spent time working for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Wounded Warrior Fellow, and in various roles with Clear Path for Veterans located in Upstate New
- [Thomas Downs](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/thomas-downs/) - Tom Downs is the Associate Director for Diversity Recruiting at Gartner. He leads the Global Diversity Recruiting Program there, which also includes veterans and military spouses. With his participation in Stand-To, Tom is working to launch an enterprise-wide hiring program that will help to enable transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses to find their
- [Adam Davies](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/adam-davies/) - Adam Davies is a Deloitte consultant and the founder of Vet it, an online platform that re-imagines the way veterans access and share career insights. Through his participation in Stand-To, Adam is empowering veteran careers by refining Vet it’s approach to "informed transition."
- [Katherine Clark](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/katherine-clark/) - Katherine Clark is the Vetforce Product Manager at Salesforce, where she leads the technical product strategy and implementation of the Vetforce platform. Through her participation in Stand-To, Katherine will advance the Vetforce platform to directly connect veterans and military spouses to their first role in the technology industry.
- [Amy Bushatz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/amy-bushatz/) - A reporter since 2003, Amy Bushatz joined Military.com in 2010 and has since grown into the role of Executive Editor. As a military spouse, she is passionate about covering military life issues and is a devoted subject matter expert on all military benefits. Amy is also a mountain and road runner based in Alaska where she runs
- [Matt Brogdon](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/matt-brogdon/) - Matt Brogdon is a Senior Engagement Manager with Microsoft and the Microsoft Military Affairs Team, focused on supporting transitioning military service members and veterans as they transition to civilian IT careers through the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy. Matt is also the founder of the Pathfinder Group, a consulting and coaching firm helping corporate America
- [Barrett Bogue](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/barrett-bogue/) - Barrett Y. Bogue is President and Founder of Evocati LLC, a professional service firm that helps businesses grow their investment in the military-connected community. Prior to founding Evocati, he served as Vice President at Student Veterans of America and Acting Assistant Director for GI Bill Oversight and Outreach with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- [Melissa Boatwright](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/melissa-boatwright/) - Melissa enlisted in the Air Force at 19 with every intention of, but no plan for, becoming a sportscaster. She spent 10 years on active duty jet-setting across the globe as a military journalist. After finishing her undergrad during active duty, Melissa dove straight into securing her Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications. She also met
- [Matthew Beer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/matthew-beer/) - Matthew Beer has been selected as the new military and veteran affairs manager in the Carson College of Business’ Office of Graduate Programs. Beer, a 1996 WSU graduate in political science, was commissioned into the U.S. Air Force from WSU’s AFROTC program. In his new position, he will facilitate the success of veteran students with
- [Nicole Baldwin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/nicole-baldwin/) - Nicole Baldwin, MBA, is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of IThrive Network, a global life support system created for women who serve or have served. IThrive Network is leveraging science, technology, and wellness to create a digital well-being community of women empowering women to thrive. With her participation in Stand-To, Nicole is continuing to
- [Alexander Balbir](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/alexander-balbir/) - Alex Balbir serves as the director for Independence Services. Prior to joining Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), he served as a health care consultant supporting the Department of Defense Military Health System and as the deputy director and chief of operations for clinical research at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence. Alex is a Navy reservist, serving as a
- [Lauren Augustine](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lauren-augustine/) - As the Vice President of Government Affairs, Lauren advocates on behalf of student veterans, their families, and military-connected students to empower them to, through, and beyond higher education. Since joining the team in 2018, she has helped champion several legislative and regulatory changes in support of SVA’s mission. She previously worked as a senior legislative
- [Ben Armstrong](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ben-armstrong/) - Ben is an educated Marine veteran with 18 years of experience in professional leadership who served in support of Operation Enduring and Iraqi Freedom as an Aviation Electrician with Marine Attack Squadron VMA-231 from 1999 to 2004. Upon being discharged from the military Mr. Armstrong received his undergraduate degree from Texas State University and
- [Carlo Aragoncillo](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/carlo-aragoncillo/) - Carlo Aragoncillo serves as the Director of the Veterans' Brain Health Program at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Carlo's focuses and experiences have expanded into designing program interventions with clinical staff, specifically supporting veterans impacted by brain traumas.​ Carlo Aragoncillo served as the former Director of Veterans Affairs for the City of Philadelphia. In
- [Derek Abbey](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/derek-abbey/) - When Derek Abbey was 17 years old, he joined the Marine Corps, a decision he claims, “saved his life.” Raised by a single mother who had passed away four years previously, Abbey was a rambunctious youth in need of a new purpose. After enlisting, Abbey attended Oregon State University to earn his bachelor’s degree. He
- [Zack Baddorf](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/zack-baddorf/) - I’m a journalist and filmmaker with more than 15 years of experience producing award-winning stories from more than 30 countries, including Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West Bank, and Kashmir, as well as rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka and Burma. My work has been published by the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Reuters,
- [Verenice Castillo](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/verenice-castillo/) - Verenice Castillo is the Founder and CEO of Military Spouse Advocacy Network (MSAN). MSAN was founded in 2014 with a mission to create stronger military families through education, empowerment and support. MSAN is the fastest growing network of advocates and mentors providing peer-to-peer support to all military spouses. MSAN’s impact has reached over 378,000 military
- [Tina Atherall](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/tina-atherall/) - Dr. Tina Atherall is a social innovation strategist with a concentration in non-profit and social enterprise leadership. She is the CEO of PsychArmor and works with communities educating and advocating for critical support for those who have served and their families. She has embedded her career in the field of social work innovation and leadership
- [Ross Dickman](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ross-dickman/) - Ross Dickman currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Hire Heroes USA. In his previous role at Hire Heroes, Ross served as the Director of the Independence Project. He was responsible for the operations and execution of a scientific research program about disabled veterans employment and quality of life. Conducted in partnership with academic
- [Rebecca Moynihan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rebecca-moynihan/) - As Vice President, Moynihan is responsible for developing and managing network-level projects to support the growth of the CVN network and it’s initiatives. She brings over 10 years of non-profit experience to Cohen Veterans Network, recently serving as Director of Special Projects at the March of Dimes Foundation. In that role, she was responsible for
- [Phaly Pichota](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/phaly-pichota/) - Phaly has been focused on nutrition for the majority of her life, after experiencing severe malnutrition in her early childhood during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. She knows what it feels like to starve and has firsthand experienced on the power and impact of food with her own health and recovery. She credits the
- [Melissa Lucas](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/melissa-lucas/) - I am beyond excited to take the reins of this incredible agency and all of the support that I have received from the Board, the executive team and our staff has been nothing short of inspiring. I’m particularly fortunate to be surrounded by such a dedicated and talented team as we take this organization into
- [Margaret Riley](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/margaret-riley/) - Partnership and coalition-building professional with a strong legal background. Experienced in community relations (employee engagement, partnership relationship building, stakeholder cultivation), philanthropic investing, programmatic design, implementation and management, and impact analysis. Possess a passion for delivering sustainable and scalable community impact. Strong public speaker and advocate for social good. U.S. Army combat veteran.
- [Lenaya Hezel](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lenaya-hezel/) - Lenaya Crandall Hezel is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) organizational strategist. While pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at George Mason University, LeNaya founded NayceQuest LLC in 2020 to guide organizations as they explore, dive into a deeper understanding, and discover meaningful ways to shift our culture to be equitable and inclusive. Lenaya has over
- [Larry Vasquez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/larry-vasquez/) - Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed Capt. Lawrence Vasquez the City of Los Angeles’ first Director of Military and Veterans Affairs, is a key post that will further the Mayor’s strong commitment to creating opportunities for military personnel and veterans. “The women and men of the armed forces should know that they have our unwavering support
- [Lacey Beaty](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/104101/) - Lacey Beaty was elected Beaverton’s Mayor in 2020. Prior to serving as Mayor, she served for six years on Beaverton City Council. Before joining the City Council, she was an active volunteer for the city’s Visioning Advisory Committee, serving as vice-chair. She is the youngest ever elected official in Beaverton’s history. Mayor Beaty believes in
- [Kimberly Tapia](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kimberly-tapia/) - Kimberly Tapia is the Founder & Managing Director of Polanko Consulting, a firm recognized for leveraging technology, innovation, and modern business methodologies to achieve high-impact. An intuitive thinker and master innovator, Kimberly Tapia continues to push the envelope. Her fields of experience span over 15 years in the areas of Business Consulting, Lean Six Sigma,
- [Jimmy White IV](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jimmy-white-iv/) - Jimmy White IV is a South Philadelphia native who passionately seeks to make a positive impact on youths and veterans locally and nationally. He endeavors to accomplish this feat through collaborations with organizations such as We The People Stage, Year Up, the Weekly Fight, Hopeworks Camden, and the Travis Manion Foundation. An Operation Iraqi War
- [Janaia Nash](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/janaia-nash/) - WASHINGTON D.C. - The HillVets 100 Gala is the premiere black tie event for the veteran and military community that highlights the most influential and impactful veterans, service members and supporters from 2017. The HillVets 100 includes veterans of all eras, from the Vietnam War to the more recent Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Selectees represent
- [Eric Golnick](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/eric-golnick/) - Forge Veteran and First Responder (Forge VFR) is excited to announce that Eric Golnick, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Forge VFR, has been selected as one of 51 national scholars to participate in the George W. Bush Institute’s 2021 Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program, an initiative for individuals serving veterans who are motivated to broaden
- [Eric Glaude](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/eric-glaude/) - Counselor Veterans Affairs with over several years of experience in the field of clinical social work, and Post Traumatic Stress administration. Specialty in Group Therapy therapy, Clinical Supervision, individual therapy, Mental Health education, program development, and Working with Adolescents. A professional, ethical approach to therapy with a commitment to client-centered, evidence-based practice. A passionate advocate
- [Marc Yablonka](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/marc-yablonka/) - Have been a military journalist since 1992. Prior to that, filed as a stringer for the Los Angeles Times, National Catholic Register, L.A. bureaus of Reuters and Agence France Presse, Bangkok Post, Japan Times, Jakarta Post, Straits Times (Singapore), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). Specialties: Writing on Vietnam War, World War II, Aviation, and
- [Elisa Borah](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/elisa-borah/) - Elisa V. Borah, MSW, Ph.D. is a research associate professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, and the director of the Institute for Military and Veteran Family Wellness, a joint initiative of the Dell Medical School Department of Health Social Work and the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Borah conducts research to identify, implement,
- [Eden Murrie](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/eden-murrie/) - Prior to assuming this position, Eden was a Director at the Partnership for Public Service, a Washington DC non-profit. Previous to this role, Brigadier General Murrie culminated a 29-year Air Force career as the Director of Air Force Services in Washington DC. She has senior executive experience including working on the National Security Staff for
- [Andrew Dyer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-dyer/) - Andrew Dyer covers the military and veterans issues for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, he joined the Navy in 2001 and served for 10 years. After leaving the Navy, he enrolled at Southwestern College in Chula Vista to study journalism. He transferred to San Diego State where he worked as opinion
- [Alonzo Clark](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/alonzo-clark/) - Alonzo Clark is a digital correspondent with 4+ years of multimedia experience who enjoys gathering different perspectives and exchanging them as news. He graduated from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University with honors in journalism and mass communication with a concentration in multimedia journalism in 2019. Currently, he is a photojournalist and graphic illustrator
- [Anthony Vazquez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/anthony-vazquez/) - Anthony Vazquez is a Marine Corps veteran and photojournalist for the Chicago Sun-Times where he concentrates on the city’s south and west sides. Previously Vazquez was based out of Iowa and Mexico where he focused on the effects of Medicaid privatization in Iowa and rural life in the United States and Mexico. In the Marine
- [Babee Garcia](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/babee-garcia/) - Babee Garcia is an award-winning communications professional with a demonstrated history of military and media experience. ​​​​​​​She is currently the Weekday Morning News Producer for Good Morning Charlottesville which airs from 5 AM-7 AM. She joined the CBS19 team in August 2020. She transitioned out of her previous job as the Digital and Press Assistant
- [Bob Woodward](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bob-woodward/) - Woodward was born to Jane and Alfred Woodward in Geneva, Illinois on March 26, 1943. He enrolled at Yale University in 1961 with an NROTC scholarship and studied history and English literature. He received his B.A. degree in 1965 and began a five-year tour of duty in the U.S. Navy.
- [Brett Sholtis](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/brett-sholtis/) - Brett Sholtis is a health reporter for WITF/Transforming Health. Sholtis is the 2021-2022 Reveal Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism with the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. His award-winning work on problem areas in mental health policy and policing helped to get a woman moved from county jail to
- [CJ Chivers](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cj-chivers/) - C.J. Chivers, a former foreign correspondent, is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. His Pulitzer Prize-winning cover story for the Magazine in 2016 led to the release from an Illinois prison of an Afghan war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Mr. Chivers was a Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Persian
- [CS Muncy](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cs-muncy/) - Photojournalism professionals are committed to presenting visual stories through unique, compelling, and effective media products for a variety of audiences. Proven history of covering moving stories from high-impact environments, with a client list that includes the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, and the New York Daily News.
- [J.P. Lawrence](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/j-p-lawrence/) - J.P. Lawrence is a downrange reporter for Stars and Stripes covering Afghanistan since 2018. He previously reported for the San Antonio Express and Albany Times Union. He has written in the U.S. and Africa for the New York Review of Books, Vice, The Intercept, and the Associated Press. He served in the U.S. Army and
- [Fred Minnick](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/fred-minnick/) - Fred Minnick is an American author who has written seven books. He is noted for having a great whiskey palate, as he's a judge on the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, World Whiskies Awards, and is the former lead American whiskey reviewer for Whiskey Advocate. Minnick has served as the Bourbon Authority for the Kentucky
- [Gilbert Baez](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/gilbert-baez/) - Gilbert Baez is an American weather anchor and Fayetteville news reporter. Covering news in Fayetteville is special to him, because of Fort Bragg soldiers, who come from across the country as well as around the world, this community is a melting pot, much like the Washington D.C. area. Many of the service members retire here
- [Gordon Dillow](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/gordon-dillow/) - Gordon is a veteran journalist with more than four decades of experience as a reporter, war correspondent, and columnist. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the old Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Orange County Register, and other newspapers, and has also contributed articles to a number of magazines, including the Columbia Journalism Review,
- [Jack Murphy](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jack-murphy/) - Jack Murphy served in the 3rd Ranger Battalion and 5th Special Forces Group, deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq as a sniper, gun team leader, and senior weapons sergeant on a military free-fall team. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in political science in 2014 and has worked as an investigative journalist ever since.
- [James LaPorta](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/james-laporta/) - James LaPorta is an investigative reporter for The Associated Press covering national security, the intelligence community, and the U.S. military. He is a military advisor to the award-winning television show This is Us on NBC. His reporting has garnered various journalism awards and accolades with bylines, work, and commentary appearing on and in The New
- [Jason Delgado](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jason-delgado/) - My name is Jason Delgado and I cover news out of the state capital for Florida Politics. After a go with the Army, I studied political science and national security at the University of Central Florida. I also interned at POLITICO Florida in Tallahassee and WMFE-NPR in Orlando.
- [Jasper Lo](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/103941/) - Jasper is an editorial intern at Global Citizen. He spent four years in the US Army as an Armor Officer and is currently a dual-degree graduate student at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and School of Journalism. Jasper is originally from Queens, New York.
- [Jeff Parrott](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/103944/) - Jeff Parrott is a journalist on Deseret News’ Rapid Relevance team with a focus on politics and national stories. He is a former U.S. Army officer, an Operation Enduring Freedom veteran, and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. If not in the newsroom, Jeff can usually be found in Utah’s public lands with a
- [Jon Burkett](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jon-burkett/) - Jon Burkett is a Chesterfield native and Navy veteran. Jon has been a photojournalist and reporter at WTVR CBS 6 since 2000.
- [Kai Ryssdal](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kai-ryssdal/) - Kai Ryssdal is an American radio journalist and the host of the marketplace. He is currently the host of the marketplace. Before joining Marketplace, Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report, a news, and information program. The program was distributed to public radio stations throughout California by KQED-FM in San Francisco.
- [Kaj Larsen](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kaj-larsen/) - Kaj Larsen was born in Santa Cruz, California, and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a degree in Political Science. At Harvard University he received his Masters's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, Kaj was awarded a fellowship from the Shorenstein Center for
- [Kelly Kennedy](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kelly-kennedy/) - Kelly Kennedy is the best-selling author of "They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq," and the co-author of Kate Germano's "Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind how Female Marines are Trained." She now edits and ghostwrites books, and serves as the managing editor for The
- [Melissa Martens](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/melissa-martens/) - Melissa Martens (she/her) is a Canadian singer-songwriter-guitarist. Her writing and musical style are most often acoustic pop, with a hint of folk, country, and soft rock. Melissa started singing and writing music at a young age and picked up the guitar as a teenager. In 2011 her first six-track EP, Standstill, was released, and in
- [Mike Glenn](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/mike-glenn/) - Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount
- [Paul Mooney](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/paul-mooney/) - Paul Mooney is an American freelance journalist who has reported on China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since 1985. At various times, he has been on staff at Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Eastern Express, and Knight-Ridder Financial News. Articles on the website have appeared in leading publications around the world, including Newsweek, the Far
- [Paul Szoldra](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/paul-szoldra/) - My name is Paul Szoldra (pronounced ZOAL-druh). I am a reporter and editor focused on national security issues, military service members, and veterans. Since 2018, I’ve been the editor in chief of Task & Purpose, though my byline can be found at Business Insider, Tech Insider, We Are The Mighty and other outlets. I’m also
- [Peter O'Cain](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/peter-ocain/) - Pete O’Cain is a graduate of Central Washington University, served in the Marines Corps, and covers public safety in Chelan and Douglas counties. He also leads The Wenatchee World’s wildfire coverage.
- [Phil Briggs](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/phil-briggs/) - Phil Briggs is a Navy veteran. He served as a photojournalist on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). A Stennis “plank owner,” Phil served on board during the carrier’s commissioning and sea trials, editing the ship’s newspaper. Throughout his enlistment, he covered stories from the flight deck to the fearless Sailors who
- [Priya Sridhar](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/priya-sridhar/) - Priya Sridhar worked at KPBS as a general assignment reporter. She came to San Diego from San Antonio, Texas where she worked as a general assignment and investigative reporter for KENS5, a CBS affiliate. Priya began her journalism career as a multimedia journalist for the NBC affiliates in Maine. She went on to work as
- [Reilly Kneedler](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/reilly-kneedler/) - Wenatchee World staff writer Reilly Kneedler has been named to the newly created role of Wick digital audience editor. While the position is new to Wick Communications, the role has been an integral part of the success that larger news organizations such as The Washington Post have had in growing their digital subscriptions to support
- [Rob Hughes](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/rob-hughes/) - Rob Hughes anchors “First News” on KMBC ABC 9/KCWE CW 29 in Kansas City, Missouri, on weekdays from 7 a.m. - 9 a.m., and noon. He previously served as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at KMBC's sister station, KOCO ABC 5 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Rob has worked as an anchor, reporter, and
- [Russell Midori](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/russell-midori/) - I am a Hispanic American photojournalist born in Brooklyn, NY. I specialize in technical field production, so I spend my days driving a news truck around New York City. I film and edit noteworthy events, transmitting finished packages and live shots to my news station. I also shoot freelance commercial films and documentary projects through Drum
- [Stephanie Ramos](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/stephanie-ramos/) - Stephanie Ramos is an ABC News reporter. Before joining ABC News, Stephanie anchored and reported at KMBC in Kansas City. Her work there was particularly notable for her coverage of immigrant children caught crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. In 2008, Stephanie served as a 1st Lieutenant in Iraq and was awarded multiple medals for
- [Tawnell Hobbs](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/tawnell-hobbs/) - Tawnell D. Hobbs is a senior special writer on the investigations team at The Wall Street Journal. She was formerly the Journal’s national K-12 education reporter. Her coverage has included uncovering ransomware attacks, writing about widespread cheating in schools, delving into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, and in-depth reporting on mass shootings. A native
- [Thomas Brennan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/thomas-brennan/) - I served as a U.S. Marine who fought during the Second Battle of Fallujah and suffered a traumatic brain injury on a foot patrol in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Throughout my recovery, I wrote publicly about my mental health and moral injury in a series of award-winning reflections for The New York Times. After being medically
- [Thomas Hengge](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/thomas-hengge/) - Thomas Hengge is a freelance photographer and video journalist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His photographs and videos have been published by The Associated Press, The Guardian, PBS Newshour, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, Newsday, and more. He is a United States Army infantry veteran, a graduate of Fordham University, and earned an MA in
- [Vlad Duthiers](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/vlad-duthiers/) - Vladimir Duthiers is a CBS News correspondent based in New York. Duthiers is part of the team delivering the first look at the day's top stories for "CBS Mornings." He also serves as an anchor for the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News' premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service. His work has been featured on
- [Danielle Pope](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/danielle-pope/) - When Dannielle Pope left the military, this veteran had no idea what to do, where she would work, or how to even begin the process of finding a job. Now, she’s the Director of Innovative Technology for America’s Warrior Partnership. Dannielle is responsible for overseeing WarriorServe and the WarriorServe Partner Portal, which are apps designed to
- [Jelani Gibson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/jelani-gibson/) - Jelani Gibson grew up in Washington, D.C., and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where he got his start in journalism as a public affairs photojournalist. He also worked as an education reporter at the Weatherford (Texas) Democrat. Previously he was a teaching assistant at the University of North Texas Mayborn School of
- [Crystal Cochran](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/crystal-cochran/) - Crystal and her husband, John, have two boys, who are both Spartan Theatre lovers. Finley is in his senior year and Grayson is a freshman. By day, Crystal works for the US Chamber of Commerce, shifting gears into theater and soccer mom for nights and weekends. The Cochrans are all avid travelers. When home, their
- [Catherine LaPorte](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/catherine-laporte/) - Catherine R. Laporte (Kaplansky), is the newly appointed, North-East Region Chairwoman of the National Association of Black Military Women (NABMW) and also serves on the NABMW National Executive Board. A member of the New York City Chapter, Laporte is also a former Chief of Staff and Deputy Commissioner of Operations and Special Projects for the
- [Betty Rhoades](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/betty-rhoades/) - Betty Rhoades joined the HillVets Foundation in December of 2019 as the Executive Director. Betty lives in Washington, DC – just steps from the HillVets House! – with her husband, her rescued pit bull, Jack, and her “quarantine kitty,” Rex. Betty’s husband, Jason, was one of the original class of HillVets Fellows; he worked in
- [Beth Conlin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/beth-conlin/) - Beth Conlin is the Senior Advisor for Careers with Blue Star Families. An Army Spouse coming up on her seventh move in 10 years, she has first-hand experience with the challenges surrounding military spouse employment. After an overseas PCS forced her to quit her job in 2013, she completely transformed her career to working
- [Bana Miller](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bana-miller/) - Bana Miller’s ’04 career focuses on advocating for our nation’s veterans and their families. And with good reason, as Miller’s husband is a veteran of the U.S. Army. Miller has seen first-hand the difficulties facing veterans and their families as they transition from active duty to civilian life. This summer, Miller was accepted into the
- [David Martin](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/david-martin/) - David Martin has been CBS News' national security correspondent, covering the Pentagon and the State Department, since 1993. In that capacity, he has reported virtually every major defense, intelligence, and international affairs story for the "CBS Evening News," as well as for other broadcasts, including "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours." He also contributed to "60
- [Annette Maldonado](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/annette-maldonado/) - Experienced program manager for leadership and workforce development programs in the federal government, higher education, and non-profit sector. Advocate for military spouse employment and veterans.
- [Babs Chase](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/babs-chase/) - Babs Chase is the Vice President of Military and Veterans Programs at The Manufacturing Institute, the social impact arm of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the nation’s largest industrial trade association. In her role, Babs leads Heroes MAKE America- the Institute’s initiative to connect transitioning service members with the manufacturing industry creating a pipeline
- [Marvin J. Wolf](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/marvin-j-wolf/) - Marvin J. (for Jules) Wolf flunked an LAPD Internal Affairs polygraph administered in a cramped, stuffy Parker Center room with puke-green walls, and was once arrested by Hermosa Beach's chief of police for selling encyclopedias. He's worked as a Farmer's Market pearl diver, sold cameras, served as an Army drill sergeant, taught hand-to-hand combat at
- [Andrew Ward](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-ward/) - Andrew Ward, President, and Founder of the Acadiana Veteran Alliance (AVA) began his military service in 2001. He served a total of 6 years in the U.S. Army Infantry and the Louisiana National Guard 256th Infantry Brigade, completing one tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004-2005. After graduating from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette,
- [Andrew Newby](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-newby/) - Andrew Newby is a George W. Bush Institute Scholar and serves as the principal administrator for Veteran and Military Services across the University of Mississippi System. He works to solve the complex issues surrounding military-connected students in higher education and oversees enterprise-wide programs and university development for Veteran & Military Services. Andrew works in government
- [Adelle Bish](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/adelle-bish/) - I am currently a tenured Associate Professor of Human Resource Management in the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics at N.C. A&T State University. I have specialist expertise in talent management, performance, developing management capabilities, and HR practices. Prior to my academic career, I trained in Organizational Psychology and worked in a range
- [Andrew Davenport](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/andrew-davenport/) - Member of the 2021 George W. Bush Presidential Institute Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program cohort #3. Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the George W. Bush Institute is an action-oriented, nonpartisan policy organization with the mission of developing leaders, advancing policy, and taking action to solve today’s most pressing challenges. Through three Impact Centers
- [Sergio Ortiz](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sergio-ortiz/) - Based on Fox Island, WA, Sergio Ortiz is an internationally-known photojournalist and travel writer. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications that include Americas, a magazine published by the Organization of American States, Vanity Fair, Paris Match, TIME, Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Boston Globe, and Recommend Magazine. His interest in news photography began as a boy, with a
- [Christopher Jones](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/christopher-jones/) - Christopher Jones was a reporter for 100 Days in Appalachia where, as a digital and forensic reporter, he focuses on white supremacists and their disinformation campaigns. A United States Marine Corps veteran, who served four years in the infantry and as a machine gun squad leader in Afghanistan, Jones was also an EMT in Pittsburgh.
- [Les Payne](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/les-payne/) - Journalist and author Les Payne was born on July 12, 1941, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a child, Payne was always interested in writing. He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1964 with B.A. degree in English. Serving six years in the United States Army, Payne worked as an Army journalist and wrote speeches for
- [Kevin Sullivan](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/kevin-sullivan/) - Kevin Sullivan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior correspondent and associate editor for The Washington Post. He was a Post foreign correspondent for 14 years, then served as a chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and features editor. He has reported from more than 75 countries on six continents. Sullivan and his wife, Mary
- [Dan Rather](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dan-rather/) - With a famed and storied career that has spanned more than six decades, Dan Rather has earned his place as one of the world’s best-known journalists. He has interviewed every president since Eisenhower and, over that time, personally covered almost every important dateline in the United States and around the world. Rather joined CBS News
- [Steve Doig](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/steve-doig/) - Steve Doig is a professor of data journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication of Arizona State University. Before joining ASU in 1996 as the founding Knight Chair, he was Associate Editor/Research of the Miami Herald, where he worked for 20 years. Investigative projects on which he worked at The Herald
- [Joseph L. Galloway](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/joseph-l-galloway/) - Galloway has a weekly column on military affairs syndicated nationally by the Knight-Ridder Tribune Syndicate, a partnership between Knight Ridder and the Chicago Tribune. He recently completed an assignment as a special consultant to General Colin Powell at the State Department. Prior to joining Knight Ridder, Galloway, a native of Refugio, Texas, spent 22 years
- [Mateo Hevezi](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/mateo-hevezi/) - Mateo Hevezi was born on September 9, 1966, in Indiana USA, a short drive from the city of Chicago. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Always on the move, he has never been in one spot very long … a true nomad in every sense. In America, he has lived in 12
- [Ernest Hemingway](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/ernest-hemingway/) - Before Hemingway settled for a life as a writer, his tryst with other professions is what shaped him as the wordsmith that he is. Nobel laureate, Ernest Hemingway, was born on July 21, 1899, in Illinois, USA. With his works influencing generations of writers after him, Hemingway’s journalistic, pragmatic and prosaic approach became famous for
- [Clyde Gunter](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/clyde-gunter/) - Clyde Gunter is a United States sailor turned multimedia journalist who is currently completing his studies in Documentary Filmmaking at The New York Film Academy. Clyde served on active duty in the United States Navy from 2013 to 2018 as an Operations Specialist. He initially served three years in Sasebo, Japan, where he deployed with
- [Bob Schieffer](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/bob-schieffer/) - Bob Schieffer, 79, has been a reporter for more than half a century and his retirement in 2015 marked his 46th year at CBS News and his 24th anchoring "Face the Nation." In 2016, it was announced that Schieffer will serve as a political contributor through the 2017 Inauguration. Prior to joining CBS in 1969,
- [Trent Reedy](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/104010/) - Trent Reedyserved as a combat engineer in the Iowa Army National Guard from 1999 to 2005, including a year’s tour of duty in Afghanistan, where he befriended Jawad Arash. Based on his experiences there, he wrote his debut middle-grade novel, Words in the Dust, which won the Christopher Medal and was chosen for Al Roker’s
- [Tony Mobley](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/tony-mobley/) - The passion to create and document timeless images is what drives and motivates Tony Mobley. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Tony’s first photo of memory was that of his younger sister, Patricia in front of their family home at the tender age of 9 years old. That portrait still graces the wall in their
- [Scott McDonald](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/scott-mcdonald/) - After a 24-year career as an officer in the US Marine Corps, I have embarked on a Ph.D. at The Fletcher School. Two decades ago the Marine Corps decided I would be good at Chinese and sent me to school to be a China Foreign Area Officer. This decision would change the course of my
- [Scott Bourque](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/scott-bourque/) - Scott Bourque is an award-winning journalist who specializes in long-form storytelling. As a Phoenix native, Scott has a deep understanding of local and regional history, and how the issues facing communities in the region have evolved over time. He is passionate about issues of economic equality, housing and urban development, and military/veteran affairs. Scott is
- [Sara Sneath](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/sara-sneath/) - Sara is based in New Orleans, where she investigates the impact and influence of the oil and gas industry as part of a collaboration with two local outlets, The Lens and the Louisiana Illuminator. Sara has reported on environmental issues in the Gulf South for nearly a decade. She was a member of the reporting team that won
- [Marty Skovlund](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/marty-skovlund/) - I have gone on assignment to cover the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest, embedded with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan, and even profiled influential people like Travis Pastrana and Jim O’Heir. My stories have been published in a variety of publications both digital and print (with a focus on narrative long-form), which include breaking news
- [Mark Payumo](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/mark-payumo/) - Mark Payumo is co-founder of Strategic & Warfare Studies Group, an emerging research entity on Asia-Pacific security. He also teaches at North Valley Military Institute in California. Payumo is a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy and he previously served as a Philippine Army Special Forces Officer who specialized in unconventional warfare and counterterrorism. He
- [Lucretia Cunningham](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/lucretia-cunningham/) - Lucretia Cunningham is a freelance multimedia journalist and Air Force Reserve public affairs specialist. After serving over 10 years as a medic in the active-duty Air Force, Lucretia cross-trained in public affairs in the reserve component and attended the Defense Information School at Ft. Meade, Maryland. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Old
- [Dustin Jones](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/dustin-jones/) - Dustin Jones is a reporter for NPR's digital news desk. He mainly covers breaking news but enjoys working on long-form narrative pieces. Jones got his start at NPR in September 2020 as the organization's first intern through a partnership with Military Veterans in Journalism. He interned as a producer for All Things Considered on the
- [Cybèle C. Greenberg](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/cybele-c-greenberg/) - Cybèle Greenberg is an opinion writer focused on foreign relations, diplomacy, and national security. She graduated from Harvard, where she was a member of the Varsity Lightweight Women’s crew team, and received a master’s in Political Theory from Cambridge University in 2017. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Diplomat, The Independent, Defense One,
- [Davis Winkie](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/davis-winkie/) - Davis Winkie is a staff reporter covering the Army. He originally joined Military Times as a reporting intern in 2020. Before journalism, Davis worked as a military historian. He is also a human resources officer in the Army National Guard.
- [Ben Kesling](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/103904/) - Ben is a Midwest correspondent with The Wall Street Journal in the Chicago bureau where he also focuses on domestic security and veterans issues. He was previously a national security and veterans issues reporter at the Journal's bureau in Washington. He also has experience as a foreign and combat correspondent. Ben graduated from Wabash College
- [Amy McCullough Hudson](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/amy-mccullough-hudson/) - Amy Hudson is the news editor of Air Force Magazine where she manages the Daily Report and writes regularly for the print magazine. A former staff sergeant in the Air Force Reserve, Hudson has spent the last decade covering the U.S. military, reporting from more than a dozen countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. She served
- [Alex Horton](https://milvetreporting.org/our-team/alex-horton/) - Alex Horton is a national security reporter for The Washington Post, where he covers the U.S. military. He joined The Post’s general assignment desk in 2017 from Stars and Stripes and served in Iraq as an Army infantryman.

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