Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author who belongs to the News Guild/CWA. She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Boston Globe, and many others. She is the cofounder of the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute and serves as a Senior Policy Analyst. She is the author, editor, or coauthor of twenty books, including previous works on veterans’ and healthcare-related issues including Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans and From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public. She received a Special Recognition Award from the Disabled American Veterans for her writing about veteran issues. For more information on her speaking, writing, and workshop facilitation, see suzannegordon.com. She lives in Richmond, CA.