Jason W. Forrester

Jason W. Forrester is the Director of Policy at Veterans for America (VFA). He helps direct VFA’s work addressing the needs of members of the active-duty military and the National Guard and Reserve who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jason works closely with a bipartisan group of members from both chambers of Congress in support of steps that address the needs of our servicemembers. Jason has testified before Congress and the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors on these issues. He views have also appeared in various media outlets, including the New York Times and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Jason regularly briefs military leaders regarding the needs of servicemembers and their families and changes that need to be implemented within the Department of Defense to better support them.

Jason has served in the Senate and as the coordinator of all Kerry-Edwards national security policy teams. He was Deputy Foreign Policy Adviser on General Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign and has worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Brookings Institution, the Gore-Lieberman national security team, The Carter Center, and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

He received an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and was graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in political science (comparative politics) from Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

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