Our speakers from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs have changed. Below are bios for the two VA speakers who will come to campus Wednesday, March 9. Cheryl Ndunguru from OPM will also join. (See original post here.)
Known throughout the military blogosphere as “GI Kate,” Kate Hoit was born and raised in Albany, New York. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve at 17 and served for eight years—including time as an Army photojournalist in Balad, Iraq from 2004 – 2005 with the 301st Area Support Group out of Queens. In addition to maintaining the blog GIKate.com, her work has appeared in the New York Times (at The Caucus: The Politics and Government Blog of The Times), The Huffington Post, and VetVoice. She has appeared in the History Channel documentary special Band of Bloggers and has worked on a documentary film about women in the military. Kate recently graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in Journalism.
As a New Media Specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Alex Horton is the primary writer for the Department’s official blog. He is best known as “Army of Dude,” the title of his blog and nom de guerre as an enlisted infantryman at Fort Lewis, Washington. He deployed to Iraq in 2006 with the Third Stryker Brigade, Second Infantry Division for a fifteen month tour, where his unit saw some of the heaviest fighting during the troop surge in 2007 in Baghdad and Baqubah, Diyala Province. Along with his writing at Army of Dude, Alex’s work has been published in the St. Petersburg Times and he has been profiled by CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, The Economist and several NPR affiliates. His blog has been twice nominated for military blog of the year. Prior to arriving at VA, Alex was a student majoring in global studies in Austin, Texas.
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