Pathfinder Blog

In this series, we highlight those working in the Veteran and Military communities to help make reintegration and life a little better for everyone. We wanted to ask some of the common questions about how they got to where they are and how they inspire others to do more. Interviewer: Stacey Ebert, Veteran Support Network Organization: Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving  Title in Organization: Founder, Executive Director, President, Facilitator  Why Veterans? I am a woman combat veteran and I found the reintegration from military culture to civilian culture to be very challenging. For me, with suicidal tendencies and addiction being my initial coping skills, that struggle was also life-threatening. I felt that if it was like that for me, it may be similar for others. What got you interested in this organization (if you started the organization - what inspired you to do so)? I founded WVE & T for a few reasons, one was because women veterans are an underserved population wit