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Dylan Tête
Executive Director and Founder, Bastion Community of Resilience
Dylan Tête is founder and executive director of Bastion Community of Resilience, a housing community for warriors and families with life-altering injuries. Previously, he was a civil servant working alongside New Orleans’s deputy mayor of public safety, helped transition military personnel and wounded veterans into civilian careers for Military.com, and managed construction of FEMA housing after Hurricane Katrina. A West Point graduate with a master’s in public health, Tête did a combat tour in Iraq during which he established recovery projects with the US State Department. He has mentored military youth at the Knights of Heroes outdoor adventure camp and is certified by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
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Our country’s social fabric is badly frayed by distrust, division and exclusion. But across America, people are quietly working to end loneliness and isolation and weave toget...