Thomas Brennan is the founder and executive director of The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom focused on the human impact of military service. He served as an infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan before studying investigative reporting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. His reporting has also appeared in Vanity Fair and on the front page of the New York Times. Thomas has held fellowships at the Center for a New American Security, the Atlantic Council, and the George W. Bush Institute. He is the recipient of three Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award.
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