PRESS ROOM

For all press inquiries and interview requests, please contact Adrienne Willis, Director Of Communications at 202-557-7509 or by email at awillis@veteransforamerica.org

Bobby Muller
Bobby Muller served as a combat infantry officer in the U.S. Marines from 1968 to 1969. While leading a patrol in Vietnam, he was shot in the chest and paralyzed. Witnessing first-hand the Veterans Administration’s inadequate treatment of wounded veterans, Muller founded the Vietnam Veterans of America in 1978 and later the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (which was renamed the Veterans for America). Muller led the first delegations of American veterans to Vietnam and Cambodia in the early 1980s. In 1991, he co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

Since the beginning of our wars Afghanistan and Iraq, Bobby has worked tirelessly to repair the social contract between the American people, the U.S. Government, and the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. His efforts focus on veterans suffering from the signature wounds of our current wars – post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries – receive the treatment they need.

Bobby has appeared extensively in national and international media, numerous documentaries, and films as an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder and the capacity crisis in the U.S. military.

Jason Forrester
Jason W. Forrester is the Director of Policy at Veterans for America. He helps direct VFA’s work addressing the unmet needs of those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As VFA’s chief legislative liaison, Jason works closely with a bipartisan group of members from both chambers of Congress in support of legislation and Congressional oversight that address the needs of wounded warriors. Jason has testified before Congress and the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors on these issues. He has also appeared in various media outlets.

Jason coordinates Congressional staff delegations to military bases, following on VFA’s unique investigate work in this area. Jason regularly briefs military leaders of the needs of wounded warriors and on changes that need to be implemented within the Department of Defense.

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 Brookings Institution, the Gore-Lieberman national security team, 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 the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.