Taryn Davis Founder & Executive Director
Her passion and work with the AWP has been featured in such places as The TODAY Show, NPR, People and PBS. It's also led to her receiving such accolades as Top 10 CNN Hero,one of NEWSWEEK's 150 Women Who Shake the World, L'Oreal's National Woman of Worth and DVF People's Voice Award Recipient. She's shared her story on the stage for Forbes, GE, Morgan Stanley, TEDx and more. At 21, Taryn received devastating news: Her husband, CPL Michael Davis, had been killed in Baghdad, Iraq.Following his death she created the American Widow Project to provide vital empowerment and peer-based resources to our Nation's Military Widows and Widowers, having now served over 2,000 at over a 100 retreats