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T.J. Westphal is a Federally-Accredited Veterans Service Officer (VSO) with over 10 years of experience providing assistance and advocacy to veterans. He currently serves as the Supervisory County VSO for a large, metropolitan county in Colorado. He has also worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a Readjustment Counselor for combat veterans recently separated from military service.
T.J. served in the U.S. Army Infantry for eight years with tours of duty in Alaska, Germany, Kosovo and Iraq. After leaving the military, he made Colorado his permanent duty station, earned a BA in Behavioral Science from Metropolitan State University of Denver, met his wife and started a family. In his free time, T.J. enjoys writing, fly fishing, snowboarding, playing drums, and most of all, spending quality time with his family and friends.
This blog was created to serve as a portfolio of work in COM 561 at Washington State University, where T.J. is pursuing a MA in Strategic Communication from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. He hopes to use this educational experience to continue a career in public service with an emphasis on communicating public health policy and social advocacy.
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