We believe that through creating an intersectional movement of minority veterans - including racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ, and religious minorities - we can create an inclusive community and a collective voice capable of impacting critical change for the minority veteran community.

Minority Veterans of America was founded in 2017, in Seattle, WA, by Navy veteran, Lindsay Church, and Air Force veteran, Katherine Pratt.

Church and Pratt first began their work in 2014 through as student veterans at the University of Washington. Their work focused on creating a space where minority veterans could belong and bring their full selves to the veteran community. Though the two do not share the same identities, they both understood what it meant to be marginalized and feel outside in the veteran community.

They began organizing with the understanding that, as minority veterans, when one of us is harmed, we are all harmed and that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.