BTM04 - Benjamin Pomerance - Veteran Ready Lawyer Training Program
Behind The Mission
<p><strong>About Today’s Guest</strong></p>
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<p>Benjamin Pomerance, Esq., is the Deputy Director for Program Development for the New York State Division of Veterans’ Services. In this role, he serves as the Deputy General Counsel for the agency, as well as working as the agency’s Legislative Liaison and overseeing several of the Division’s programming initiatives. His work focuses on advocacy and assistance for Veterans, Servicemembers, and their families on a wide range of federal and state issues. </p>
<p>Benjamin graduated as the salutatorian of his class from Albany Law School in 2013. While at Albany Law, he founded and directed the school’s Veterans’ Rights Pro Bono Project, for which he received the “President’s Pro Bono Service Award” from the New York State Bar Association. He served as the Executive Editor for Symposium for the <em>Albany Law Review</em>, led the school’s student chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and published a report about human rights concerns confronting America’s aging prison population as an Edgar & Margaret Sandman Fellow with the Government Law Center. </p>
<p><strong>Links Mentioned In This Episode</strong></p>
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<p><a href="https://veterans.ny.gov/" rel="nofollow">New York State Division of Veterans Services</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://nysba.org/committees/committee-on-veterans/" rel="nofollow">New York State Bar Association Committee on Veterans</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://alumni.albanylaw.edu/s/977/18/interior-one-col.aspx?sid=977&gid=1&pgid=3176" rel="nofollow">Albany Law School Veterans’ Pro Bono Project</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://psycharmor.org/press-release-psycharmor-new-york-state-bar-veteran-services/" rel="nofollow">PsychArmor’s Veteran Ready Lawyer Training Announcement</a></p>
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<p>This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.</p>
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<p><strong>Theme Music</strong></p>
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<p>Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with <a href="https://operationencore.org/" rel="nofollow">Operation Encore</a>, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.</p>
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<p><em>Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families. You can find more about the work that he is doing at </em><a href="http://www.veteranmentalhealth.com/" rel="nofollow"><em>www.veteranmentalhealth.com</em></a></p>