Blue Star Families Deputy Director Megan Glynn

A Military Wife’s Surprise: Moving Back Home

Megan Glynn, a former Air Spouse of the Year, is deputy director of Blue Star Families, an organization that provides support to military families. Before participating in a panel on what war does to families, she talked Facebook, St. Patrick’s Day, and Germany in the Zócalo green room.

UCLA Psychiatrist Patricia Lester

The Problems You Solve Make You Stronger

Psychiatrist Patricia Lester is the director of UCLA’s Project FOCUS, which offers resiliency training for military families, as well as the Nathanson Family Resilience Center. Before participating in a panel …

USA Today’s Kelly Kennedy

If I Could Go Out With a Grenade Launcher, I Was Pretty Sure I Could Become a Good Journalist

Kelly Kennedy is a health policy reporter for USA Today and the author of They Fought for Each Other. Before moderating a panel on how the wars in the Middle …

UCLA’s David Hovda

It’s New Mexican Cooking

David Hovda is the director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. Before participating in a panel on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are changing medicine, he talked …

Reporter Patricia Leigh Brown

She Said She’d Always Been a Dancer

Patricia Leigh Brown has been writing for The New York Times since 1986, first in New York and now as a contributor from San Francisco. In addition, she contributes to …

Marine-Turned-Farmer Colin Archipley

I’m A Lot More Like Kale Than You’d Think

Colin Archipley, a former marine who served in Iraq, is the co-founder and CEO of the farm Archi’s Acres and the Veterans Sustainable Agriculture Training program. Before participating in a …