BTM113 - Emily Bader - The Bob Woodruff Foundation
Show Summary
On this episode of Behind the Mission, we feature a conversation with Emily Bader, Senior Director of Investments for the Bob Woodruff Foundation, an organization with a mission to find, fund, shape, and accelerate equitable solutions that help service members, veterans, their families, and their caregivers to thrive.
About Today’s Guest
As Senior Director of Investments, Emily Bader is responsible for all of the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s investments to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for veterans, service members, military families, and caregivers. Emily’s team finds, funds, and shapes investments that best meet the emerging and long-term needs of the military and veteran community.
Since joining BWF’s programs team in 2018, Emily has published numerous briefs to raise awareness of emerging mil/vet research, developed an innovative clinical stipend program to increase healthcare providers’ access to training in evidence-based treatments, facilitated the launch of the Move United’s USA Wheelchair Football League, transformed how BWF evaluates the impact of their investments, and shaped programming to improve the functional and substantive expertise of BWF’s Got Your 6 Network. In prior BWF roles, Emily has managed individual grants, overseen BWF events, and contributed to executive office operations.
She holds a master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University, and she studied Arabic at The Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture in Amman, Jordan. Emily graduated Summa Cum Laude from St. John’s University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice. Her uncle is a proud Vietnam War veteran and her cousin is currently serving in the U.S. Air Force.
PsychArmor Resource of the Week
This week’s PsychArmor resource of the week is the the PsychArmor course, Sustaining Momentum, narrated by Bob Woodruff, journalist and co-founder of the Bob Woodruff Foundation. This course examines how the eco-cycle model of collaboration can help partners understand the collaborative process and plan for sustainability together. You can see find this episode here: https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/sustaining-momentum
Theme Music
Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.
This Episode Sponsored By:
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.
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 www.veteranmentalhealth.com
