Carissa Picard, PBS Unsung Heroine

When I read this I could not be more happy about this! Carissa, aside from being a wonderful friend for many years has been one of the most powerful advocates I've come across in all the years I've been doing this. She is absolutely devoted to helping the troops and their families to make sure they have the best possible life while serving and after their usefulness to the military has come to an end. In other words, when they are wounded or ill and need the military as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs to take care of them for a change in repayment of their duty being done. Her countless hours of dedication, emptied pockets covering expense of travel and supporting MSA causes as President and Founder, (old name Military Spouses for Change) have been done too many times without being shown the appreciation she truly deserves. Even on sabbatical, she finds it impossible to really stop working and get some much needed rest.

The following is from Carissa

I am on sabbatical from MSA, but it was brought to my attention that Maria Hinojosa, emmy-winning journalist of PBS NOW, has named me as one of their unsung heroines for Women's History Month. I am both humbled, honored, and grateful--even more so considering what an amazing woman Ms. Hinojosa is.

MSA President Named as an Unsung Heroine by PBS for Women's History Month
PBS’ Favorite Unsung HeroinesMarch 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm"March is Women’s History Month–but we’d like to shine a light on women of immense accomplishment, fortitude and inspiration, though not an equal amount of recognition. From Bill Moyers, Maria Hinojosa, Judy Woodruff, Lidia Bastianich, Martin Savidge, Tom Stewart and Paula Zahn, their personal unsung heroines..."....Maria Hinojosa, Senior Correspondent from NOW on PBS, on Carissa Picard“Carissa Picard is an inspiration. The wife of an army pilot and mother of two toddlers, she lives on a military base in Texas. She sees many military

spouses on the base who feel powerless and lonely. But Carissa is a lawyer, so has taken her legal skills and created an organization–Military Spouses for Change (now Military Spouses for America)–to help the wives (and husbands) speak out and feel empowered enough to challenge one of the biggest and most powerful institutions in our country…the military. She helps women own their voices and their power to challenge authority.”Carissa was featured in the NOW Program “Fighting the Military“, you can watch it online.
Read about the other amazing woman at
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/424/index.html.

As always, your ally in change,