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SUMMARY:Author Kayla Williams in Conversation on Veterans Day
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DESCRIPTION:Join MASH (Military Affiliated Students of Harris) for coffee\
 , donuts\, and a Veterans Day morning conversation with Kayla Williams: A
 rmy veteran\, author\, and former Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
 .\n\nWilliams enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2000 and served as an Arabic l
 inguist and signals intelligence specialist with the 101st Airborne Divis
 ion\, deploying to Iraq during the 2003 invasion. She chronicled that exp
 erience in her memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young & Female in the 
 U.S. Army (2006)\, and her family's journey through recovery after war in
  Plenty of Time When We Get Home (2014). From 2021 to 2022\, she served a
 s Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S
 . Department of Veterans Affairs.\n\nWilliams is on campus for Veterans D
 ay as a guest of David Chrisinger's writing program at Harris. The conver
 sation will explore military service\, writing about war and its aftermat
 h\, and turning lived experience into public service and veterans policy.
 \n\nOpen to the University of Chicago community\, including Harris studen
 ts\, students across the University\, and alumni. Members of Women in Pub
 lic Policy are especially encouraged to attend. Coffee and donuts provide
 d.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/0cd9b2aa-3a4f-454e-bf75-2c14eb4e8264
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/0cd9b2aa-3a4f-454e-bf75-2c14eb4e8264
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