Kim Staffieri and Matt Zeller

Staffieri is the co-founder of The Association of Wartime Allies, an organization dedicated to assisting SIV applicants. Currently her organization offers real-time assistance to more than 9,500 members. Zeller is a U.S. Army veteran. He is also Co-Founder of No One Left Behind, a Truman National Security Project Fellow, and an Adjunct Fellow at the American Security Project. He is the author of Watches Without Time (Just World Books, 2012), which chronicles his experience serving as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan, in 2008.  

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