Ellen is a proud Navy Spouse and Navy and Coast Guard Granddaughter. She is the Co-Founder of the Military Family Building Coalition, as well as previously co-founding FEED, Food Tank and Co-Directing the Summit Institute. Ellen is the author of "We the Eaters: If We Change Dinner, We Can Change the World," has been a Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneur and given four TEDxTalks.

Anil is a first-generation American and second-generation Air Force veteran, following his father who was drafted during the Vietnam War after emigrating from India. Anil works in the Management Consulting industry and was previously the General Manager for Aviation at Uber.

Christa is an Air Force veteran, where she gained first-hand experience in the information operations space. Following her service, Christa spent several years as a consultant for multiple government agencies while completing her MBA in Finance from Johns Hopkins University. Soon after, she joined a public affairs firm in New York City. Today, Christa is an enterprise communications leader at a major life insurance company.

Ben joined the Marine Corps while in college, serving in the reserves into law school, and deploying to theater for OIF. After graduating, Ben practiced at a large law firm in Washington, D.C. and New York. He currently serves as the Chief Risk Officer of Elutions, a multinational AI company, and is a founder and Chairman of the AVA Foundation.

Joe is a 20 year, combat decorated Marine Corps veteran, where he planned and executed the largest media embed program in USMC history during the invasion of Iraq, served as the senior U.S. military spokesperson in Indonesia in the wake of the tsunami and in the Pentagon as the spokesman, press secretary, and staff group director for the 34th, 35th, and 36th Commandants of the Marine Corps. Today, he is a co-founder of Cassandra Helenus Partners - a leadership coaching and human communication firm.

Bill is an Army veteran and Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and a Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland. He previously served as the director of practitioner education at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and an instructor in the Department of Social Sciences, as a foreign affairs specialist within the National Nuclear Security Administration, and as an Armor Officer in the United States Army. Bill is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Study.

Ingrid is the daughter of an Army veteran. She has nearly 15 years of communications and project management experience with the federal government, including extensive work on humanitarian disaster relief in Iraq, Nigeria, and the Caribbean. She has an MA in International Relations from the University of Nottingham.

Jermaineis an Army veteran. He just wants to create content that commands your attention and causes self-reflection with emotional messaging. He spends most of his time daydreaming about the subconscious psychology of an image’s composition and how to wield that power to his own, aforementioned, ends. Unfortunately, he hasn’t mastered this universal language but, in its pursuit, this scrappy military-brat has traveled to more than 70 countries, dove more than 300 dives, had 7 near death experiences, swam with sharks, deployed to Iraq, started a boutique marketing agency and an IT Joint-Venture, and convinced a perfectly healthy and sane woman to co-create a son named Odysseus.