JC Clapsaddle is a retired Air Force Colonel. Among his assignments was a tour in Iraq as a liaison between Air Force and Army combat medical activities, and a liaison between the U.S. State Department and the Iraqi National Health Ministry. He served on Capitol Hill in the U.S. Senate as a National Defense Fellow and liaison for a legislative portfolio that included Veterans Affairs, human rights, gender equality, racial diversity in officer recruiting, combating religious intolerance, prevention of sexual harassment and assault, and ending veteran suicide. In 2010, the Secretary of Defense appointed him Deputy Director of the Pentagon's Special Legal and Legislative Team that crafted the President's successful repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Later, he commanded military hospitals at Ramstein Air Base (Germany) and Al Udeid (Qatar), caring for the ill and wounded from combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. JC is a graduate of the Masters Leadership Program San Antonio, a Rotarian, and serves on five nonprofit boards. He is co-founder of the Corrymeela Centre’s (Northern Ireland) International Peace Scholar Program, the U.S. Coordinator of the Seeds of Hope Peace Leadership Academy (United Kingdom), and part of an international humanitarian relief operation supplying goods, medical supplies, and vehicles to Ukraine during the Ukraine–Russia War.