As Tracy Threatt was researching websites for veterans service programs at different colleges, she noticed that the veterans pictured were very diverse—except for one thing.
“I asked my supervisor, ‘do you see a woman in here?’” recalls Threatt, a counselor at Central Piedmont Community College, who received her doctorate in education and leadership from Northeastern University in May.
The answer was, “no.”
“So, I said, ‘that needs to change,’” says Threatt, who is now bringing awareness of female veterans to the national stage.
The 59-year-old U.S. Navy veteran was recently named as a scholar in the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
“This program will be phenomenal in so many ways—for the networking, and to be among those other…
