Kristy Kaufmann

During my 11 years as an Army wife, I recognized the mental health impact on soldiers and families were not being appropriately addressed. Upon realizing that driving change from inside the system was ineffective, I wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post, "Army Families Under Fire." The piece resulted in the platform upon which my co-founder, MG (R) Alan Salisbury and I built a national nonprofit dedicated to integrating effort in a highly fragmented veteran support community.